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Tornado Watch 366

June 4, 200130 counties in Kansas

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper61 min
Jun 4, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, Marion63 min
Jun 4, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner55 min
Jun 4, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper67 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2001-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1610 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2001-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 436 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 1:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Clark, Clay, Cloud and 35 more4 hr
Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Comanche, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Pratt and 4 more6 hr
Jun 5, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 24 more5 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.