Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 2000, 10:03 PM CST for Butler County, Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min. 3 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
- Feb 17, 2000, 10:03 PM CST (04:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2000, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Butler County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 10:03 PM CST | Hail 4.5 | Wichita, KS | Occurred in South Wichita |
| Feb 17, 10:05 PM CST | Hail 1 | Wichita, KS | Occurred in southeast Wichita at intersection of Harry and Webb Rd. |
| Feb 17, 10:09 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Rose Hill, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 9:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 3586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 180404 SVRICT KSC015-173-180500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1003 PM CST THU FEB 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1100 PM CST. * AT 1003 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DERBY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF WICHITA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. *THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EAST WICHITA AROUND 1005 PM CST... NEAR ROSE HILL AROUND 1010 PM CST... NEAR ANDOVER AROUND 1015 PM CST... NEAR AUGUSTA AROUND 1020 PM CST... NEAR EL DORADO AROUND 1030 PM CST... NUMEROUS REPORTS OF GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY...SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUEDt FOR BUTLER AND SEDGWICK COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM CST. LAT...LON 3747 9736 3746 9681 3782 9684 3771 9737 HOWERTON & NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 8:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 56 min |
| Feb 17, 9:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Sedgwick | 49 min |
| Feb 17, 10:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 55 min |
| Feb 17, 10:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 42 min |
| Feb 17, 10:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 53 min |
| Feb 17, 11:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 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.