Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 692
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 23, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; 14 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Barton County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 49 min |
| Aug 23, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 66 min |
| Aug 23, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 53 min |
| Aug 23, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 66 min |
| Aug 23, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 55 min |
| Aug 23, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 62 min |
| Aug 23, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Riley | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 63 min |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 2466 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 23, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Comanche | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.