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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2000, 12:28 AM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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 24, 2000, 12:28 AM CDT (05:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2000, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:31 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 24, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 2896 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1333 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 240529 SVRICT KSC191-240630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1228 AM CDT SAT JUN 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 130 AM CDT. * AT 1225 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONWAY SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARGONIA AROUND 1230 AM CDT... NEAR CONWAY SPRINGS AROUND 1235 AM CDT... NEAR WELLINGTON AROUND 100 AM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... THE STORM HAS 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. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SUMNER COUNTY UNTIL 130 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3750 9777 3703 9781 3703 9717 3744 9719 NOONAN NNNN
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, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 48 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, 12:59 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.