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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 10:24 PM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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, 10:24 PM CDT (03:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 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, 10:26 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Alden, KS | |
| May 26, 11:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Saxman, KS | Numerous 3-5 inch diameter limbs 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, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1756 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 270326 SVRICT KSC159-270400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1024 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RICE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT. * AT 1024 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER RAYMOND...OR ABOUT 21 MILES EAST OF GREAT BEND...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR ALDEN AROUND 1035 PM CDT... NEAR LYONS AROUND 1045 PM CDT... NEAR LITTLE RIVER AROUND 1055 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS... DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR... 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. 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 RICE COUNTY UNTIL 1100 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3838 9852 3820 9851 3820 9795 3841 9796 HYSELL NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 63 min |
| May 26, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Rice | 63 min |
| May 26, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 57 min |
| May 26, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Marion | 66 min |
| May 26, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 58 min |
| May 26, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 61 min |
| May 27, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 55 min |
| May 27, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 51 min |
| May 27, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 44 min |
| May 27, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson, Woodson | 52 min |
| May 27, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 57 min |
| May 27, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 52 min |
| May 27, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 43 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.