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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2000, 12:33 AM CDT for Ellsworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min. 3 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 19, 2000, 12:33 AM CDT (05:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2000, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 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), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:37 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 12:34 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Wilson, KS | |
| Jul 19, 1:03 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 M | Ellsworth, KS | |
| Jul 19, 1:18 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 53 E | Lorraine, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 2427 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 190533 SVRICT KSC053-190630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1233 AM CDT WED JUL 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 130 AM CDT. * AT 1231 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES EAST OF WILSON...OR ABOUT 23 MILES EAST OF RUSSELL...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR ELLSWORTH AROUND 1245 AM CDT... 7 MILES NORTH OF KANOPOLIS AROUND 1250 AM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. REPEATINGd...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ELLSWORTH COUNTY UNTIL 130 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3886 9849 3853 9848 3851 9791 3886 9792 HOWERTON NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 4:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 53 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.