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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Wichita, KS

May 16, 2000Allen County, Woodson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2000, 8:25 AM CDT for Allen County, Woodson County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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: May 16, 2000, 8:25 AM CDT (13:25 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2000, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Allen County, KS, Woodson County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 16, 8:35 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Piqua, KS
May 16, 8:46 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Humboldt, 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 123 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1062 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 409 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 358 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KICT 161327
SVRICT
KSC001-207-161400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
825 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ALLEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
  WOODSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 900 AM CDT.

* AT 825 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEOSHO FALLS...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES WEST OF IOLA...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  RURAL EASTERN WOODSON COUNTY THROUGH 840 AM CDT...
  BETWEEN IOLA AND HUMBOLDT AROUND 845 AM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS...
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR...

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WOODSON
AND ALLEN COUNTIES UNTIL 900 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3804 9565 3790 9578 3777 9548 3774 9532
          3785 9518 3795 9539

HYSELL

NNNN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 16, 3:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 3:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
340 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 2000

MAIN FCST PROBLEMS APPEAR TO BE CONVECTIVE PCPN AND TEMPS THRU
WEDNESDAY. CONTINUE TO PREFER AN ETA/AVN BLEND FOR THIS FCST
WITH RESPECT TO THE UPPER LOW MOVING THRU THE SWRN STATES TODAY AND
TONIGHT, AND APPROACHING THE CNTRL PLAINS WEDNESDAY. NGM CONTINUES
TO LOOK A BIT TOO STRONG/FAST WITH THE UPR LOW...AND TOO FAR N WITH
SFC LOW...AT 36-48 HRS.

TODAY...LAPS SOUNDINGS SHOW BUILDING CAP FROM 750-850 EARLY THIS AM
IN WAA PROFILE. MODEST CHC FOR ELEVATED CONVECTION THIS AM TO FIRE
ON ERN PERIPHERY OF 700 MB WARM PLUME. OTHERWISE...LEE CYCLOGENESIS
OVER ERN COLORADO WL INCREASE SERLY FLOW ACROSS THE FCST AREA TODAY
DRAWING HIGHER LOW LVL MOISTURE IN. MOISTURE POOLS NORTH OF SFC WARM
FRONT WHICH SHOULD EXTEND FROM ERN CO...ACROSS SWRN KS/NRN OK BY
AFTERNOON. DEGREE OF CAPPING SUGGESTS KEEPING POPS OUT FOR THIS PM.
CIRRUS PLUME WL CONTINUE OVER AREA AND MAY INHIBIT HIGHS SOME ALONG
WITH INCREASING SFC DWPTS. WL REDUCE CURRENT FCST HIGHS TOWARD
FWC/FAN.

TONIGHT...MCS DEVELOPMENT SEEMS LIKELY ALONG AND N OF 850 FRONT IN
NEBRASKA. FLOW ALOFT SHOULD KEEP THIS CONVECTION FROM AFFECTING OUR
AREA, ALTHOUGH 850/300 THICKNESS SUGGEST SOME SEWD PROPAGATION PSBL
TOWARD CNTRL KS LATE TONIGHT. 850/700 TEMPS CONTINUE TO INCREASE
TONIGHT INDICATING STRENGTHENING CAP, THUS WL STICK WITH DRY FCST.
TIGHTENING GRADIENT IN LOW-MID LVLS TONIGHT WITH BREEZY CONDITIONS
AREAWIDE HELPING TO KEEP MINS MILDER THAN NORMAL.

WEDNESDAY...UPR LOW MOVES INTO ERN COLORADO BY LATE AFTERNOON WITH
MAIN VORT MAX PUSHING NEWD OUT INTO WRN KS. SFC LOW DEEPENS RAPIDLY
OVER FAR NERN CO/NWRN KS DURING DAY BEFORE PUSHING OUT INTO S-CNTRL
NEBRASKA WED EVE. THIS WL ALLOW DRYLINE TO PUSH INTO CNTRL SECTIONS
DURING THE AFTERNOON. ETA SHOWS MID 50S DWPTS E OF DRYLINE IN KS IN
THE AFTERNOON WHICH IS PROBABLY UNDERDONE. LOW-MID 60S DWPTS SEEM
MORE REASONABLE, WHICH WOULD LEAD TO VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS BUT STILL
CAPPING TO OVERCOME (-115 J/KG). HOWEVER...MID LVL COOLING AND
CONVERGENCE ALONG DRYLINE SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT TO INITIATE WDLY SCT
OR SCT THUNDERSTORMS ALONG DRYLINE BY LATE PM. DEEP LYR SHEAR WL BE
STRONG WITH 110 KT UPR JET STREAK MOVG NEWD OUT OVER KS. SUPERCELL
TSTMS SHOULD BE THE OUTCOME FOR ANY CONVECTION THAT BREAKS CAP ALONG
DRYLINE INTO THE EVENING HRS.  WL FCST HIGHS ALONG LINES OF AVN/ETA
SUGGESTING MID-UPR 80S SUCH AS CURRENT FCST.

FCSTID = 9/CARUSO
ICT   81  65  87  60 /  10  10  30  40
HUT   81  63  88  59 /  10  10  30  40
EWK   79  65  87  60 /  10  10  30  40
EQA   79  65  87  61 /  10  10  20  40
WLD   81  65  88  61 /  10  10  30  40
RSL   80  62  87  55 /  10  10  30  30
GBD   81  62  88  55 /  10  10  30  30
SLN   78  64  87  59 /  20  10  30  40
MPR   78  64  87  60 /  20  10  30  40
CFV   80  65  86  62 /  10  10  2I0  40
CNU   79  65  86  62 /  20  10  20  40
K88   79  64  85  61 /  20  10  20  40

.ICT...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 16, 7:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA, KANSAS
721 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0549 AM    MOLINE                    KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/00   ELK

0536 AM    ARLINGTON                 KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/00   RENO

0615 AM    5 NW COFFEYVILLE          KS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/16/00   MONTGOMERY

0639 AM    COFFEYVILLE               KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/00   MONTGOMERY

0540 AM    5 W HOWARD                KS   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/16/00   ELK

0544 AM    6 SW HOWARD               KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/00   ELK

0612 AM    10 SW ELK CITY            KS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/16/00   MONTGOMERY

0620 AM    HALE                      KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/00   CHAUTAUQUA

0640 AM    COFFEYVILLE               KS   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/16/00   MONTGOMERY

BRW

Local storm report, May 16, 7:52 AM CDT, 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA, KANSAS
752 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0630 AM    2 NW HALE                 KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/00   CHAUTAUQUA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 5:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	60 min
May 16, 5:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery	61 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.