Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 4:16 PM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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
- May 24, 2000, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Harper County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Duquoin, 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 459 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -666 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 242118 SVRICT KSC077-242200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 416 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HARPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 500 PM CDT. * AT 416 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HARPER...OR ABOUT 29 MILES EAST OF MEDICINE LODGE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR RUNNYMEDE AROUND 440 PM CDT... NEAR DANVILLE AROUND 445 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HARPER COUNTY UNTIL 500 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3738 9811 3720 9815 3720 9783 3738 9784 CARUSO NNNN B
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 55 min |
| May 24, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 34 min |
| May 24, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.