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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 4:40 PM CDT for Chase County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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
- Aug 7, 2000, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Chase County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 5:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Matfield Green, KS | Roof damage and large limbs downed. |
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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 072141 SVRICT KSC017-072245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 440 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHASE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 545 PM CDT. * AT 439 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF CASSODAY...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF EL DORADO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 545 PM CDT... MATFIELD... THE KANSAS TURNPIKE... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS... DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR... SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CHASE COUNTY UNTIL 545 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3826 9683 3809 9682 3810 9637 3827 n9637 RUNYAN NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 11:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 57 min |
| Aug 7, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 57 min |
| Aug 7, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.