Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 649
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 1, 2001, 4:30 PM MDT for 8 counties in Colorado; 9 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2001, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2001, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 61 min |
| Aug 1, 5:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 66 min |
| Aug 1, 5:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 38 min |
| Aug 1, 5:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 28 min |
| Aug 1, 6:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 31 min |
| Aug 1, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 29 min |
| Aug 1, 6:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 57 min |
| Aug 1, 6:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 35 min |
| Aug 1, 7:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln, Washington | 40 min |
| Aug 1, 7:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 25 min |
| Aug 1, 7:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 45 min |
| Aug 1, 7:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 27 min |
| Aug 1, 8:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 29 min |
| Aug 1, 8:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Aug 1, 8:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 31 min |
| Aug 1, 8:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 53 min |
| Aug 1, 9:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 59 min |
| Aug 1, 9:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 50 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 64 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.