Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 2000, 11:23 PM CST for Wilson County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 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
- Feb 17, 2000, 11:23 PM CST (05:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2000, 12:30 AM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wilson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 11:25 PM CST | Hail 1.25 | Buxton, KS | One inch hail also reported by law enforcement at 2325 CST. |
| Feb 17, 11:35 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Neodesha, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 9:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 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 180524 SVRICT KSC205-180630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1123 PM CST THU FEB 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WILSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 1230 AM CST. * AT 1122 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUXTON...OR ABOUT 33 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHANUTE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. *THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR BUXTON AROUND 1125 PM CST... NEAR FREDONIA AROUND 1130 PM CST... NEAR NEODESHA AROUND 1140 PM CST... NEAR ALTOONA AROUND 1145 PM CST... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... THE STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WILSON COUNTY UNTIL 1230 AM CST. LAT...LON 3753 9596 3738 9596 3738 9552 3762 9560 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, 10:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 55 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 |
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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.