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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 2000, 1:14 AM CST for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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
- Feb 25, 2000, 1:14 AM CST (07:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2000, 1:45 AM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Reno County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 470 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 250716 SVRICT KSC155-250745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 114 AM CST FRI FEB 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RENO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 145 AM CST. * AT 114 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF HAVEN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF HUTCHINSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR HAVEN AROUND 120 AM CST... AT 110 AM CST A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PRETTY PRARIE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WTARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RENO COUNTY UNTIL 145 AM CST. THIS EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RENO COUNTY. LAT...LON 3786 9808 3774 9792 3781 9772 3815 9783 HYSELL & NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 12:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 58 min |
| Feb 25, 1:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 64 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.