Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 753
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 22, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 59 min |
| Sep 22, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 47 min |
| Sep 22, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 49 min |
| Sep 22, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 48 min |
| Sep 22, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 52 min |
| Sep 22, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 47 min |
| Sep 22, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 44 min |
| Sep 23, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 38 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -495 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2070 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 321 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 22, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson and 7 more | 3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.