Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 82
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 3, 2001, 8:00 AM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2001, 8:00 AM CDT (13:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2001, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Henry County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:04 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
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 8:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 8:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 8:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 8:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 8:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 8:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 9:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 9:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 9:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 4 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 10:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 11:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 11:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 11:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 63 min |
| Apr 3, 11:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pettis | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 443 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Christian and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Dunklin, New Madrid, Oregon, Pemiscot, Ripley | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 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.