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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Wichita, KS

May 26, 2000Chautauqua County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 2:21 AM CDT for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 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 26, 2000, 2:21 AM CDT (07:21 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2000, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Chautauqua County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 26, 2:31 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 ECedar Vale, KS
May 26, 2:45 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 ECedar Vale, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 26, 12:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2000-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1965 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2000-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KICT 260724
SVRICT
KSC019-260815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
221 AM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 315 AM CDT.

* AT 224 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF CEDAR VALE TO 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CEDAR VALE...OR ALONG A     
  LINE EXTENDING FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST  OF ARKANSAS CITY
  TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ARKANSAS CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40    
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
  NEAR CEDAR VALE AROUND 230 AM CDT...
  NEAR CHAUTAUQUA AROUND 300 AM CDT...
  NEAR PERU AROUND 305 AM CDT...
  NEAR HALE AROUND 310 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.

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
cCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY UNTIL 315 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3727 9650 3698 9652 3703 9599 3730 9599

HYSELL

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper43 min
May 25, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper46 min
May 25, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper37 min
May 25, 11:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTHarper3 hr
May 25, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper48 min
May 26, 12:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner57 min
May 26, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick, Sumner66 min
May 26, 1:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTEllsworth6 hr
May 26, 1:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley55 min
May 26, 2:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTHarper6 hr
May 26, 2:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk59 min
May 26, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth23 min
May 26, 2:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth30 min
May 26, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSaline65 min
May 26, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno61 min
May 26, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey46 min
May 26, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion55 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.