Thunderstorm Wind, Labette
- When
- August 17, 8:16 PM CST
- Where
- Labette County, Parsons Tri City Arp
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 37.333, -95.517
Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 17, 2001
3 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 17, 7:34 PM CST, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 7:34 PM CST, 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 834 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001 ...UPDATED... CONCERNED WITH TWO AREAS OF CNVTN THIS EVE. FIRST WAS OCCURRING ALG A MESO OUTFLOW BNDRY ALG THE KS/OKLA BORDER. WDLY SCT TSRA CONTD TO DVLP EWD ON NRN SIDE OF BNDRY ACRS SERN KS. 65KT H3 JET STREAK ACRS ERN KS INTO NWRN MO WAS LIKELY AIDING LIFT WITH CONTRIBUTION FM RGT REAR QUAD OF JET. ALTHO STMS SHOULD WKN WITH SUNSET...THE UPR JET MAY ALLOW CNVTN TO LINGER INTO THE LATE EVENING. THE OTHER AREA OF CNVTN CONTD TO MOV STEADILY SEWD ACRS NWRN KS. THIS AREA WAS ASSOCD WITH H5 TROF...PROGD TO DROP ACRS THE AREA OVRNGT. SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO LAST EVE...THE MID LVL CAA UNDER THE TROF WAS STEEPENING LAPSE RATES ACRS NRN KS WHERE WK WAA/ISENTROPIC LIFT WERE OCCURRING BLO H7. BETTER CHCS APPEAR TO RESIDE ACRS AREAS OF CNTRL KS WHERE SCT TSRA WL BE MOVG IN BFR 03Z. WL CONT SLGT CHC FOR SCNTRL KS OVRNGT. TEMP-WISE...MINS GENLY LOOK RNSBL WITH ONLY MINOR TWEAKS IF ANY. DARMOFAL .ICT...NONE.
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:16 UTC.
Event by event
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Labette
- When
- August 17, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Labette County, 7 mi SW of Dennis
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.283, -95.500
Thunderstorm Wind, Labette
- When
- August 17, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Labette County, Dennis
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.350, -95.417
Power lines downed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Nebraska, August 17, 2001
- Rip Current in Michigan, August 17, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, August 17, 2001
- Wildfire in California, August 17 to 20, 2001
- Tornado in Iowa, August 17, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, August 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 17, 2001
- Tornado in Iowa, August 17, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, August 17, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, August 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 17 to 18, 2001
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, August 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5257555, 5257556, 5257557.