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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Wichita, KS

June 13, 2000Greenwood County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 9:01 PM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2000, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Greenwood County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:01 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.

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, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1759 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1435 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 308 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 18.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KICT 140201
SVRICT
KSC073-140300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
901 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GREENWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT.

* AT 901 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF CLIMAX...OR ABOUT 34 MILES WEST
  OF CHANUTE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  14 MILES SOUTH OF VIRGIL AROUND 915 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR...

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR
GREENWOOD COUNTY UNTIL 1000 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3791 9631 3764 9617 3763 9598 3807 9599

RUNYAN

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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, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	57 min
Jun 13, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	53 min
Jun 13, 9:03 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.