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Tornado Watch 199

May 5, 200141 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 5, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT for 41 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 41 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Graham County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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
May 5, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	41 min
May 5, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	32 min
May 5, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa	33 min
May 5, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	54 min
May 5, 7:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	43 min
May 5, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	23 min
May 5, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	46 min
May 5, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	56 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS9 KMKC 052201
SEL9  

SEL9  
MKC WW 052154
KSZ000-060300-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 199
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
454 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2001

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

   CENTRAL KANSAS                             

EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 500 PM UNTIL
1000 PM CDT.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 85 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS TO 45 MILES
NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA KANSAS.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. 
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...  CONTINUE...WW 197...WW 198...

DISCUSSION...SUPERCELLS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AND SPREAD NWD ALONG
BOTH DRYLINE /ATTM ORIENTED FROM VCNTY HLC/RSL TO GAG/...AND
NNE/SSW-ORIENTED CONFLUENCE ZONE /FROM W OF ICT TO W OF OKC/ OVER
THE SRN PLAINS.  STRENGTH OF SHEAR AND ABSENCE OF STRONG
CONVERGENCE ALONG THE BOUNDARIES SUGGESTS POTENTIAL FOR LONG-LIVED
DISCRETE STORMS...WITH ONLY A SLOW EVOLUTION TOWARD LINEAR
CONVECTIVE MODE DESPITE UNIDIRECTIONAL WIND PROFILES. 

AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 3 INCHES.  EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS.  A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. 
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 20040.T

...CORFIDI

;395,0963 365,0970 365,1000 395,0995;

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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.