Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 1:09 AM CDT for Sedgwick County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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 26, 2000, 1:09 AM CDT (06:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:09 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 26, 1:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Conway Spgs, KS | Seven to eight inch diameter tree limb blown down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1965 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
233 WUUS53 KICT 260611 SVRICT KSC173-191-260715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 109 AM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 215 AM CDT. * AT 109 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF VIOLA TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF MILAN...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 23 MILES WEST OF WICHITA TO 37 MILES WEST OF ARKANSAS CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR MILAN AROUND 115 AM CDT... NEAR CONWAY SPRINGS AROUND 125 AM CDT... SOUTHWEST SEDGWICK COUNTY THROUGH 145 AM CDT.. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES... DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING... STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT...WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY...SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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 SUMNER AND SEDGWICK COUNTIES UNTIL 215 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3705 9778 3705 9765 3759 9761 3754 9779 HYSELL & NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 43 min |
| May 25, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 46 min |
| May 25, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 37 min |
| May 25, 11:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harper | 3 hr |
| May 25, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 48 min |
| May 26, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 57 min |
| May 26, 1:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 6 hr |
| May 26, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 55 min |
| May 26, 2:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harper | 6 hr |
| May 26, 2:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 54 min |
| May 26, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 59 min |
| May 26, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 23 min |
| May 26, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 30 min |
| May 26, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 65 min |
| May 26, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 61 min |
| May 26, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 46 min |
| May 26, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 55 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.