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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Wichita, KS

June 23, 2000Ellsworth County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 10:27 PM CDT for Ellsworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 23, 2000, 10:27 PM CDT (03:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2000, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ellsworth County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 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
Jun 23, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KICT 240329
SVRICT
KSC053-240415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1027 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT.

* AT 1024 PM CDT...A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL REPORTED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  WESTFALL TO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF BUSHTON...OR ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 24 MILES WEST OF SALINA TO 27 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  GREAT BEND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
  NEAR KANOPOLIS AROUND 1030 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR...

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER THIS 
EVENING. 

THE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS.

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

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR
ELLSWORTH COUNTY UNTIL 1115 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3890 9797 3854 9845 3854 9796 3877 9795

NOONAN

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 23, 9:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 9:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:57 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes 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

Local storm report, Jun 23, 10:02 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA, KANSAS
1002 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0905 PM    RUSSELL                   KS   85 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/23/00   RUSSELL                        LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN

CO

Local storm report, Jun 23, 10:06 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA, KANSAS
1006 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0905 PM    RUSSELL                   KS   85 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/23/00   RUSSELL                        LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN

0945 PM    WILSON                    KS   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/23/00   ELLSWORTH                      LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED

CO

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 10:10 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

KSZ033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-240415-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1010 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA IS ACTIVATING OUR SKYWARN
SPOTTER NETWORK.

A SKYWARN OPERATOR IS MONITORING AREA NETWORKS.

THE PRIMARY SKYWARN FREQUENCY IS 146.94 MHZ.

SECONDARY FREQUENCIES ARE ALSO BEING MONITORED AT 146.82 AND 145.13
MHZ.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	66 min
Jun 23, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	58 min
Jun 23, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	61 min
Jun 23, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	60 min
Jun 23, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	67 min
Jun 23, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	66 min
Jun 23, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	57 min
Jun 23, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	66 min
Jun 23, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	67 min
Jun 23, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	47 min
Jun 24, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	54 min
Jun 24, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	64 min
Jun 24, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	62 min
Jun 24, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	61 min
Jun 24, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	67 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.