Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 741
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 17, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 17, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 51 min |
| Sep 17, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 54 min |
| Sep 17, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 63 min |
| Sep 17, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 58 min |
| Sep 17, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 65 min |
| Sep 17, 7:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 4 hr |
| Sep 17, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 58 min |
| Sep 17, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 46 min |
| Sep 17, 9:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Barton | 3 hr |
| Sep 17, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 66 min |
| Sep 17, 10:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Rice | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 677 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 28 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.