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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 9:49 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 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, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 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 |
| Jun 13, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 99 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.
598 WUUS53 KICT 140249 SVRICT KSC035-140345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 949 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT. * AT 948 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ATLANTA TO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OXFORD...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 26 MILES SOUTH OF EL DORADO TO 11 MILES NORTH OF ARKANSAS CITY...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR ATLANTA AROUND 950 PM CDT... NEAR BURDEN AROUND 1000 PM CDT... NEAR CAMBRIDGE AROUND 1005 PM CDT... NEAR DEXTER AROUND 1010 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL 1045 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3746 9686 3718 9717 3706 9657 3747 9658 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, 8:33 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 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.