Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Wichita, KS

Issued

Jun 23, 2000, 9:29 PM CDT (02:29 UTC)

Expired

Jun 23, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT

In force

61 min

Issued by

NWS Wichita, KS

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS

The Wichita radar (KICT), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
929 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT.

* AT 926 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES WEST OF
  SYLVAN GROVE TO 5 MILES NORTH OF SUSANK...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM 22 MILES EAST OF RUSSELL TO 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RUSSELL...
  MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
  NEAR SYLVAN GROVE AROUND 935 PM CDT...
  NEAR WILSON AROUND 950 PM CDT...
  7 MILES SOUTH OF LINCOLN AROUND 1020 PM CDT...
  NEAR ELLSWORTH AROUND 1030 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR...

THE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS.

SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL
EQUIPMENT...WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA.

REPEuATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR
ELLSWORTH AND LINCOLN COUNTIES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3915 9848 3857 9852 3851 9795 3916 9794

NOONAN

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NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 23, 9:02 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
902 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000

...UPDATED...
00Z UPR AIR SHOWD LO LVL MOIST AXIS FM WRN OKLA INTO WCNTRL KS INTO
SERN NE WITH H8 DWPTS OF 16-18C. CNVTN CONTS TO BLD SWD INTO MOIST
AXIS RESUTLING IN VRY LTL OVRALL STM MOTION. LATEST RADAR TRENDS
SHOWD MORE PROPAGATION ESEWD INTO RSL AREA WHICH MAY BE A REFLECTION
OF LO LVL JET DVLPMT ACRS CNTRL KS. AN UPR SPEED MAX WAS ALSO
STREAKING ACRS SWRN KS THIS EVE PER PROFILER NET AND LIKELY AIDING IN
LIFT IN THE RGN. THE MAIN QUESTION IS HOW STM EVOLUTION WL CONT THIS
EVE AND THEN OVRNGT ACRS THE CWA.

WL LIKELY SEE SOME STM DVLPMT FURTHER E INTO CNTRL KS UNTIL MDNGT
WHERE LO LVL MOIST CNVGNC WL BE MAXIMIZED ON INCRSG JET. AFT COORD
WITH THE SPC NOT SURE OF ADDTNL WW INTO CNTRL KS WL BE NEEDED...BUT
WL CONT TO MONITOR.

NEXT CONCERN IS HVY RAFL POTNL FURTHER NW AS WELL. WITH PWAT VALUES
NR TWO INCHES %ACRS MUCH OF THE AREA AND SLOW STM MOVMT MAY NEED TO
ISSUE FFA FOR ENTIRE CWA. AFT COORD WITH TOPEKA...WL MAKE IT SO.

DARMOFAL

.ICT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR THE ENTIRE CWA.

In the hours before

KSZ032-232315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
557 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 485 DOES NOT INCLUDE RUSSELL
COUNTY KANSAS.

KED

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.