Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 6:08 PM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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
- Jun 13, 2000, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County McPherson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:28 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Windom, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 1552 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 132307 SVRICT KSC113-140000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 608 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCPHERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT. * AT 604 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF WINDOM...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF MCPHERSON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 700 PM CDT.. CONWAY... MC PHERSON... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... THE STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MCPHERSON COUNTY UNTIL 700 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALdSO IN AFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3844 9791 3824 9792 3831 9757 3850 9758 DARMOFAL NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 26 min |
| Jun 13, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 53 min |
| Jun 13, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 31 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.