Tornadoes · United States · Kansas · 2001

F0 tornado, South Haven to Ashton, Kansas, June 5, 2001

Name: F0 tornado, South Haven to Ashton, Kansas, June 5, 2001
Start: 2001-06-06T02:02:00.000Z
Location: South Haven to Ashton, Kansas

From South Haven to Ashton, this F0 tornado ran 1.0 miles across Sumner County on June 5, 2001, touching down at 9:02 PM CDT and reaching 110 yards wide. It killed nobody.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating: F0
Date: June 5, 2001
Touchdown: 9:02 PM CDT (02:02 UTC)
Path length: 1.0 miles (1.6 km)
Path width: 110 yards (101 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
County: Sumner County
Touchdown point: 37.030, -97.420
Lift-off point: 37.030, -97.380
Record number: 800

What the Weather Service recorded

No reports of damage.

Occurred in open country.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

The warnings

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

Issued (UTC)	Expired	Product	Office
00:21 UTC	01:15 UTC	Tornado Warning	ICT
01:04 UTC	01:45 UTC	Tornado Warning	ICT
01:43 UTC	02:45 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT
02:04 UTC	02:45 UTC	Tornado Warning	ICT
02:20 UTC	04:15 UTC	Flash Flood Warning	ICT
04:20 UTC	06:15 UTC	Flash Flood Warning	ICT

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 01:12 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, 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 tornado touched down at Jun 5, 3:59 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:59 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
359 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

MAIN FCST CHALLENGE IS POPS AND WHETHER OR NOT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH
IS IN ORDER. 18Z ANALYSIS SHOWS MAIN COLD FRONT DRAPED ACROSS
CENTRAL KS. AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY EXTENDED ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST
CORNER. EXTREME SE KS HAS REACHED THE 80S...WOULD EXPECT THE REST OF
THAT SECTION TO REBOUND AS WELL. PARTS OF SCEN KS HAS ALSO STARTED
TO REBOUND. GOOD SFC HEATING COMBINED WITH THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY AND
A S/W MOVING ACROSS THE AREA (SEEN ON WATERVAPOR LOOP) WILL HELP
ADDITIONAL TSRA TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ALSO
COULD GET SOME DEVELOPMENT ACROSS CEN SECTIONS ALONG COLD FRONT.
THERE IS NOT MUCH CONVERGENCE ALONG IT...HOWEVER SHOWERS HAVE
ALREADY STARTED. WITH H85 DEW POINTS AROUND +15C...LOTS OF MOISTURE
IS AVAILABLE ALONG THE FRONT SO HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE.

THICKNESS DIFFLUENCE PROGGED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE
STATE OVERNIGHT. MODELS ALSO SHOW GOOD ISENTROPIC LIFT WITH THETA-E
RIDGE ACROSS THE SAME AREA. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL NOT BE
NECESSARY FOR CEN KS. ONE MIGHT BE NECESSARY FOR SCEN/SE KS...BEST
CHANCE FOR SE. SO WILL GO WITH ONE FOR SE KS AND PORTIONS OF SCEN.

NW FLOW DEVELOPS...WITH WEAK IMPULSES MOVING THROUGH. PRECIP CHCS
THE REST OF THE WEEK LOOK OK. WILL KEEP LOW POPS IN FOR WED/WED
NIGHT AND THU NIGHT.

OTHERWISE TEMPERATURES LOOK GOOD. ALTHOUGH WILL BUMP HIGHS UP JUST A
LITTLE TOMORROW. THINK THERE WILL BE A LITTLE MORE SUN THAN TODAY...
AND 850MB TEMPS PROGGED TO WARM SLIGHTLY.

FCSTID = 7/NRR
ICT   64  84  61  87 /  60  20  20  10
HUT   61  81  60  86 /  50  20  20  10
EWK   64  82  62  86 /  60  20  20  10
EQA   65  82  62  86 /  60  20  20  10
WLD   66  84  63  87 /  70  20  20  10
RSL   56  81  55  85 /  40  20  20  10
GBD   57  82  57  85 /  40  20  20  10
SLN   62  79  60  85 /  40  20  20  10
MPR   62  81  60  85 /  40  20  20  10
CFV   66  82  64  85 /  70  30  20  10
CNU   65  81  63  85 /  70  30  20  10
K88   65  81  63  85 /  70  30  20  10

.ICT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES
KSZ069>072...KSZ083...KSZ091>096...KSZ098>100.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA, KANSAS
634 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0614 PM    ATTICA                    KS   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/05/01   HARPER                         LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          POWER LINES DOWN.

0619 PM    CRYSTAL SPRINGS           KS   TORNAdDO
06/05/01   HARPER                         LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED.

0625 PM    1 W CRYSTAL SPRINGS       KS   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/05/01   HARPER                         TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED.

MRU

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA, KANSAS
657 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0627 PM    2 S CRYSTAL SPRINGS       KS   75 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/05/01   HARPER                         TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED.

0640 PM    5 NW HARPER               KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   HARPER                         REPORTED BY TRAINED
                                          SPOTTER.

MRU

Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA, KANSAS
709 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0700 PM    2 SW HARPER               KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   HARPER                         REPORTED BY TRAINED
                                          SPOTTER.

MRU

Local storm report, Jun 5, 8:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA, KANSAS
800 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0738 PM    PUTNAM                    KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   HARVEY                         REPORTED BY TRAINED
                                          SPOTTER.

0738 PM    PUTNAM                    KS   70 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/05/01   HARVEY                         TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED.

MRU

Local storm report, Jun 5, 8:22 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA, KANSAS
822 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0808 PM    WHITEWATER                KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   BUTLER                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

0814 PM    1 E BRAINERD              KS   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/05/01  H BUTLER                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

MRU

Local storm report, Jun 5, 8:49 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA, KANSAS
849 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0823 PM    POTWIN                    KS   75 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/05/01   BUTLER                         REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0825 PM    POTWIN                    KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   BUTLER                         REPORTED BY TRAINED
                                          SPOTTER.

0825 PM    POTWIN                    KS   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/05/01   BUTLER

0827 PM    7 NW EL DORADO            KS   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   BUTLER                         REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0833 PM    7 NW EL DORADO            KS   80 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/05/01   BUTLER                         LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED.

0837 PM    5 NW EL DORADO            KS   90 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/05/01   BUTLER                         LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED.

MRU

The surface observations

Winfield (WLD), 36 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Temp (°F)	Dew point (°F)	Wind	Gust (kt)	Pressure (mb)	Weather
00:54 UTC	81	70	140° 8 kt		1011.9
01:54 UTC	79	71	150° 8 kt		1011.5
02:54 UTC	70	65	250° 20 kt	24	1014.2	-RA
02:59 UTC	68	64.4	250° 15 kt	24	1014.6	+RA BR
03:03 UTC	68	64.4	220° 11 kt	24	1013.9	+RA BR
03:09 UTC	68	64.4	170° 9 kt	14	1013.2	+RA BR
03:16 UTC	68	64.4	160° 6 kt		1012.9	-RA
03:38 UTC	69.8	64.4	120° 4 kt		1013.2
03:54 UTC	69	65	160° 4 kt		1013.2

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

This ground now

The live radar over the track Every 2001 tornado in Kansas Every tornado in Kansas since 1950 Warnings in force in Kansas now The forecast where you are

The other tornadoes of June 5, 2001

16 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 5	4:14 PM CDT	F0	Briscoe, TX	0.2	40
June 5	5:32 PM EDT	F0	Marion, FL	0.1	10	$30,000
June 5	5:30 PM CDT	F0	Brazoria, TX	0.5	30	$40,000
June 5	6:19 PM CDT	F0	Harper, KS	1.0	110
June 5	6:35 PM CDT	F0	Motley, TX	0.2	50
June 5	6:35 PM CDT	F0	Floyd, TX	0.2	50
June 5	6:38 PM CDT	F0	Floyd, TX	0.2	50
June 5	6:50 PM CDT	F1	Floyd, TX	0.3	75	$80,000
June 5	7:09 PM CDT	F0	Floyd, TX	0.2	50
June 5	7:28 PM CDT	F0	Sumner, KS	1.0	110
June 5	7:30 PM CDT	F0	Sumner, KS	1.0	110
June 5	7:34 PM CDT	F0	Woodward, OK	0.1	25
June 5	7:39 PM CDT	F0	Harvey, KS	1.5	220	$50,000
June 5	8:15 PM CDT	F0	Floyd, TX	0.2	50
June 5	9:10 PM CDT	F0	Butler, KS	1.0	110
June 5	9:24 PM CDT	F0	Sumner, KS	1.0	110

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.