Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 7:32 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2000, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kingman County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 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, 7:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Kingman, 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, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 140033 SVRICT KSC095-140115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 732 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT. * AT 727 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR KINGMAN...OR ABOUT 26 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEDICINE LODGE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 815 PM CDT.. CLEVELAND... NORWICH... KINGMAN... AT 732 PM CDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED 60 MPH WINDS NEAR KINGMAN. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE XOF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR KINGMAN COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM CDT. & OMITT 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, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.