Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 8:34 PM CDT for Johnson County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2000, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Johnson County, KS
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 25, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 816 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KEAX 260133 SVRMCI KSC091-260230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 834 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF OLATHE * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 834 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MERRIAM...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OVERLAND PARK AT 840 PM CDT STANLEY AT 845 PM CDT THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DIME-SIZE SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. FOR YOUR SAFETY...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ALL THUNDERSTORMS. HEAVY RAINS CAN CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE...THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. LAT...LON 3902 9466 3896 9501 3875 9502 3875 9463 BUNTING
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 25, 4:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 4:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 406 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000 CONCERN FOR BOTH SVR WX AND FLASH FLOODING ACR CWA TNGT. MTR DATA AT 2000 UTC SHWS CD FNT XTNDS ALG AQP TO ONL TO AKO LN. IMPRESSIVE SQUALL LN HAS TRACKED ACR ERN NE MUCH OF PM WITH SVRL TORNADOES REPORTED IN AXIS OF STG 0-6 KM SHEAR. BOTH RUC AND ETA SUGGEST THIS STG SHEAR TO ADVANCE INTO NW MO WITH APPROACH OF CD FNT THIS EVNG. STEEPEST MID LVL LAPSE RATES ALSO FCST TO BE FOCUSED ACR NRN MO ERLY TNGT. INSERTED POSSIBILITY FOR SVR TSTMS ALL ZNS TNGT BUT THINK BEST CHC WILL REMAIN TO N. BASED ON SHEAR PROFILE BOTH DAMAGING WNDS AND ISOLD TORNADIC CELLS CAN NOT BE RULED OUT AND CERTAINLY A HAIL THREAT WITH MID/UPR TROPOSPHERIC CNVTN. THINK EVENTUAL BOX WILL BE NEED FOR NRN MO THIS EVNG. AS FAR AS +RA/FLASH FLOOD THREAT MODELS HAVE BACKED OFF SOME ON STRENGTH OF UPR TROPSPHERIC DVRGNC AND WITH RIGHT ENTRANCE RGN A BIT FTHR NORTH CONCERNED THAT CRNT QPF A BIT HIGH. NONE THE LESS GIVEN 1.5-2.0 INCH PRECIP WATER AND XPTD SLOW MVMNT OF THE FNT COUPLED WITH LO FLASH FLOOD AND HEADWATER GUIDANCE WENT WITH FFA ALL ZNS. STAYED FAIRLY CLOSE TO INHERITED FCST TEMPS THRU ALL PRDS. FNT SHLD CLR FCST AREA BY MIDDAY MON THEN RMN QUASI STNRY MON NITE THRU WED. LEFT CHC PCPN FOR WED WITH WEAK ISENTROPIC LIFT FCST BUT CAN NOT RULE OUT SPOTTY SHWR DVLPMNT ON TUE. TEMPS SHLD RMN AOB NRML THRU MOST OF 6 DAY PRD. .EAX...FFA ALL ZNS BODNER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 25, 7:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
716 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0659 PM TRENTON MO WIND DAMAGE
06/25/00 GRUNDY 2 LARGE TREES DOWN
0700 PM SAVANNAH MO 60-65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/25/00 ANDREW REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, Jun 25, 7:48 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
748 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0724 PM ST JOSEPH MO 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/25/00 BUCHANAN REPORTED ON HIGHWAY 29
AT EXIT 44 BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Jun 25, 7:53 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
753 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTYc LOCATION....
0753 PM PLATTSBURG MO 1 INCH HAIL
06/25/00 CLINTON REPORTED BY MEDIA.Special weather statement, Jun 25, 7:55 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
MOZ001-002-011-260145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 755 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 495 FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE TORNADO WATCH FOR ATCHISON...HOLT...AND NODAWAY COUNTIES IN MISSOURI...THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM...HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. HOWEVER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THESE COUNTIES TONIGHT. MJM
Local storm report, Jun 25, 7:56 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
756 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM WHEELING MO WIND DAMAGE
06/25/00 LIVINGSTON TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWNED. REPORTED BY
STORM` SPOTTER.Local storm report, Jun 25, 8:18 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
818 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0756 PM (MCI)KS CITY INTL ARPT MO 61 MPH TSTM GUST
06/25/00 PLATTEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 47 min |
| Jun 25, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.