Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 8:43 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 17 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2001, 8:43 PM CDT (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Republic County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Munden, KS | A tornado formed just north of Munden and moved northeast doing considerable damage to several farmsteads before moving into Nebraska. |
| Jun 13, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Narka, KS | A tornado formed southwest of Narka and moved northeast doing some damage to the community of Narka before crossing into Nebraska. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 4371 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1290 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 17.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
060 WFUS53 KTOP 140143 TORTOP KSC157-140200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 843 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 841 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR MUNDEN...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... NARKA THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR REPUBLIC COUNTY. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 4000 9762 3988 9761 3990 9737 4001 9736 58
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 25 min |
| Jun 13, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 32 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.