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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2000, 11:23 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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
- Apr 19, 2000, 11:23 PM CDT (04:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Montgomery County, KS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2965 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 200424 SVRICT KSC125-200515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1123 PM CDT WED APR 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT. * AT 1123 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF HAVANA...OR ABOUT 51 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHANUTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. *SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... HAVANA... TYRO... BOLTON... INDEPENDENCE... SYCAMORE... CHERRYVALE... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT...WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY UNTIL 1215 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3701 9595 3700 9558 3737 9553 3738 9593 DARMOFAL NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 27 min |
| Apr 19, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho | 20 min |
| Apr 19, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.