Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 11:50 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report 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 20, 2000, 11:50 PM CDT (04:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kingman County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 12:10 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Cunningham, 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 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 2430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.8
- Supercell composite
- 54.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 210451 SVRICT KSC095-210530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1150 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS EXTENDED THE * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1230 AM CDT. * AT 1146 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAIRO...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF PRATT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR CUNNINGHAM AT MIDNIGHT... NEAR SAINT LEO AT 1205 AM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISS>UED FOR KINGMAN COUNTY UNTIL 1230 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3773 9857 3757 9868 3740 9839 3757 9812 OMITT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 9:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Barton | 6 hr |
| Jul 20, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 63 min |
| Jul 20, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 62 min |
| Jul 20, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 65 min |
| Jul 21, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 50 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.