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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Wichita, KS

June 23, 2000Barton County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 9:17 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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
Jun 23, 2000, 9:17 PM CDT (02:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Barton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 23, 10:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EClaflin, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2642 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2642 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
19.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRussell66 min
Jun 23, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Lincoln61 min
Jun 23, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice60 min
Jun 23, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth48 min
Jun 23, 10:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno67 min
Jun 23, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson66 min
Jun 23, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman57 min
Jun 23, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey66 min
Jun 23, 11:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion67 min
Jun 23, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno47 min
Jun 24, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper54 min
Jun 24, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick64 min
Jun 24, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner62 min
Jun 24, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler61 min
Jun 24, 1:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.