Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 2001, 10:12 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 20, 2001, 10:12 PM CDT (03:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dickinson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 10:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Abilene, KS | |
| Apr 20, 10:33 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Enterprise, KS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 2129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1308 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 8.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa, Republic | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 10:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary | 24 min |
| Apr 20, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee | 37 min |
| Apr 20, 10:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary | 17 min |
| Apr 20, 11:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 37 min |
| Apr 20, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 36 min |
| Apr 20, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 40 min |
| Apr 20, 11:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa | 35 min |
| Apr 21, 12:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 22 min |
| Apr 21, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Riley | 32 min |
| Apr 21, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 26 min |
| Apr 21, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 23 min |
| Apr 21, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 32 min |
| Apr 21, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 46 min |
| Apr 21, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 53 min |
| Apr 21, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 48 min |
| Apr 21, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.