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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 3:25 PM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Saline County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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, 3:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Salina, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
671 WUUS53 KICT 262025 SVRICT KSC169-262130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 325 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 430 PM CDT. * AT 323 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF SALINA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR NEW CAMBRIA AROUND 330 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SALINE COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3896 9769 3878 9770 3880 9739 3896 9740 CHANCE 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, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 66 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, 3:29 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.