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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. 4 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 20, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 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), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 5:49 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Eureka, KS | |
| Jun 20, 5:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Reece, KS | |
| Jun 20, 6:14 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Eureka, KS | |
| Jun 20, 6:23 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Piedmont, 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 20, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
370 WUUS53 KICT 202245 SVRICT KSC073-202345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 545 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT. * AT 542 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF PIEDMONT...OR ABOUT 24 MILES EAST OF EL DORADO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS... DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR... SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR GREENWOOD COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3771 9660 3758 9644 3794 9590 3813 9614 ES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 60 min |
| Jun 20, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 58 min |
| Jun 20, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 55 min |
| Jun 20, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 64 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.