Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 767
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 9, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 9, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 10, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Barton County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Smith County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 45 min |
| Oct 9, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 61 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1476 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 17 more | 5 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.