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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Wichita, KS

May 26, 2000Kingman County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 11:18 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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: May 26, 2000, 11:18 PM CDT (04:18 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2000, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kingman County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:22 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
May 26, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 129 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3272 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

681 
WUUS53 KICT 270418
SVRICT
KSC095-270515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1118 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT.

* AT 1118 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES EAST OF
  PENALOSA TO CUNNINGHAM...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 27 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF STAFFORD TO 16 MILES EAST OF PRATT...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
  NEAR KINGMAN AROUND 1125 PM CDT...
  NEAR CLEVELAND AROUND 1135 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE 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...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 KINGMAN
COUNTY UNTIL 1215 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3773 9835 3763 9848 3742 9796 3762 9783

HYSELL

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	36 min
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, 11:24 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.