Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 2000, 10:05 PM CST for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 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
- Feb 17, 2000, 10:05 PM CST (04:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2000, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 57 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.
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 58 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 180406 SVRICT KSC191-180500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1005 PM CST THU FEB 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1100 PM CST. * AT 1005 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF SOUTH HAVEN...OR ABOUT 28 MILES WEST OF ARKANSAS CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. *THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR SOUTH HAVEN AROUND 1010 PM CST... NEAR WELLINGTON AROUND 1025 PM CST... 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 ISSUED FOR SUMNER COUNTY UNTIL 1100 PM CST. LAT...LON 3710 9769 3699 9747 3717 9714 3734 9746 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, 10:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.