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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 26, 2000Atchison County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 2:58 PM CST for Atchison County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 26, 2000, 2:58 PM CST (20:58 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2000, 3:45 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Atchison County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 26, 3:05 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Effingham, KS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 26, 12:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 66 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 262059
SVRMCI
KSC005-262145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
258 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ATCHISON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 345 PM CST

* AT 258 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF EFFINGHAM...OR 16 MILES WEST OF
  ATCHISON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CUMMINGS AT 305 PM CST
  ATCHISON AT 310 PM CST

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE POTTER...NORTONVILLE AND
LANCASTER KS.

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 FLOODING3 OF LOW LYING
AREAS.

BB/SF

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	51 min
Mar 26, 3:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Wyandotte	35 min
Mar 26, 4:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.