Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 8:33 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min. 10 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
- Jun 13, 2000, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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, 8:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Wichita, KS | 31st & S Seneca |
| Jun 13, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Derby, KS | |
| Jun 13, 8:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Wichita, KS | 47th & Broadway |
| Jun 13, 9:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Clearwater, KS | |
| Jun 13, 9:02 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Clearwater, KS | Reported by KWCH Channel 12. |
| Jun 13, 9:16 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wichita, KS | |
| Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wichita, KS | Occurred at NW 21st/Maize Road intersection. |
| Jun 13, 9:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wichita, KS | Occurred at Kellogg and Oliver. |
| Jun 13, 9:35 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Wichita, KS | Occurred at NW 21st/Maize Road intersection. |
| Jun 13, 9:38 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wichita, KS | Occurred at I235 & 25th St. |
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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 140134 SVRICT KSC173-140230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 833 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT. * AT 831 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF CHENEY...OR ABOUT 27 MILES WEST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 930 PM CDT.. CHENEY... GARDEN PLAIN... GODDARD... CLEARWATER... WEST WICHITA... HAYSVILLE... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR... REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY UNTIL 930 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM. LAT...LON 3771 9779 3750 9779 3750 9717 3779 9718 RUNYAN 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, 7:32 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, 8:52 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 |
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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.