Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 2001
Tornado Watch 366
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 4, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT for 30 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2001, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Anderson County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Reno County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Marion | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 67 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 1610 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 436 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 567 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 22.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Clark, Clay, Cloud and 35 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Pratt and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 24 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
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.