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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2000, 9:36 PM CDT for Linn County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- Apr 19, 2000, 9:36 PM CDT (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Linn County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 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.
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 19, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1072 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1917 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KEAX 200237 SVRMCI KSC107-200315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 936 PM CDT WED APR 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LINN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 936 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PARKER...OR 18 MILES EAST OF GARNETT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... TRADING POST AT 945 PM CDT LA CYGNE AT 950 PM CDT . THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 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. LAT...LON 3826 9505 3817 9468 3839 9463 3839 9494 MAXIMUK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 26 min |
| Apr 19, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.