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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 1100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 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 140016 SVRICT KSC191-140100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 715 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT. * AT 715 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BELLE PLAINE...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARKANSAS CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL SUMNER COUNTY MAY BECOME SEVERE. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 800 PM CDT.. BELLE PLAINE... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT...WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SUMNER COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. LAT...LONx 3730 9746 3717 9729 3726 9719 3749 9720 WOLF NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 25 min |
| Jun 13, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 53 min |
| Jun 13, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 62 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.