Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2000, 3:43 PM CDT for Barton County, Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 2000, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Barton County, KS, Rice County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 4:18 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Ellinwood, KS | Roof blown off a mobile home. A Parish Center sustained roof and structural damage when a roof fell onto it. One hayshed damaged on northeast side of town while a shed on southwest side had it's roof and door blown off. Tree damage was widespread. Area newspa |
| Jul 16, 4:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Lyons, 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 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 596 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
638 WUUS53 KICT 162043 SVRICT KSC009-159-162145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 343 PM CDT SUN JUL 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS RICE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 445 PM CDT. * AT 340 PM CDT...A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES EAST OF GREAT BEND...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 445 PM CDT... RAYMOND... CHASE... LYONS... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR... THE STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BARTON AND RICE COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3851 9860 3826 9860 3822 9799 3850 9803 CHANCE NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 32 min |
| Jul 16, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 66 min |
| Jul 16, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jul 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 60 min |
| Jul 16, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 64 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.