Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 689
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 23, 2001, 1:30 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2001, 1:30 PM CDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 58 min |
| Aug 23, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 65 min |
| Aug 23, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 50 min |
| Aug 23, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 38 min |
| Aug 23, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 59 min |
| Aug 23, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 24 min |
| Aug 23, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 64 min |
| Aug 23, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 63 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 851 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Comanche | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth, Jewell and 13 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
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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.