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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 1:23 AM CDT for Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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
- May 12, 2000, 1:23 AM CDT (06:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Doniphan County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 4491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1450 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 30.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
538 WUUS53 KEAX 120623 SVRMCI KSC043-120715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 123 AM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DONIPHAN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 215 AM CDT * AT 123 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DENTON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF ATCHISON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES SOUTH OF TROY AT 135 AM CDT * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SEVERANCE. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE...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 3978 9530 3965 9528 3964 9504 3990 9496 BUNTING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 27 min |
| May 11, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 31 min |
| May 11, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 45 min |
| May 11, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 44 min |
| May 11, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 45 min |
| May 11, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 52 min |
| May 11, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 60 min |
| May 12, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 42 min |
| May 12, 12:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Atchison, Leavenworth | 62 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.