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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2000, 5:50 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report 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, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Butler County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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, 6:55 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Leon, 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 134 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.
591 WUUS53 KICT 202252 SVRICT KSC015-202345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 550 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT. * AT 542 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEON...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF EL DORADO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR LEON AROUND 605 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... THE STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED FOR BUTLER COUNTY AT 502 PM CDT. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BUTLER COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3761 9698 3748 9682 3767 9653 3803 9653 ES NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 20, 3:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 3:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 358 PM CDT TUE 20 2000 MAIN FCST PROBLEM IS HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL TONIGHT AND HOW LONG TO CARRY PRECIP TOMORROW. ETA/AVN SEEMED TO HAVE INITIALIZED SLIGHTLY BETTER AND CONTINUED TO BE CLOSER WITH LOCATION OF SFC FRONT. SFC FRONT STALLS OVER SOUTHERN KANSAS TONIGHT, WITH 850MB THETA-E RIDGE EXPECTED TO REMAIN THERE AS WELL. 850MB DEW POINTS OF 16+ GET SHOVED SOUTH BY FRONT HOWEVER EXPECT 12+ DEW POINTS TO HANG AROUND UNTIL 12Z WED. 300MB SPEED MAX IS JUST TO OUR NORTH, THIS LEAVES US IN AN AREA OF SPEED DIVERGENCE. DIVERGENCE PROGGED TO INCREASE OVER NIGHT ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS ARE GENERALLY 1.3-1.5. WILL GO WITH RAIN LIKELY POPS SCEN/OCCASIONAL POPS SE. FLASH FLOOD VALUES ARE BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES ACROSS MOST OF SOUTHERN KANSAS. FEEL A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WOULD BE PRUDENT TONIGHT FROM WICHITA EAST. WITH FRONT STALLING ACROSS KS/OK BORDER WILL CONTINUE SMALL POPS FOR SOUTHERN KS TOMORROW, MAINLY MORNING FOR THE SCEN SECTION. EXPECT FRONT TO BE PUSHED NORTH DURING THE DAY WED, WITH THE WEAK BOUNDARY SETTING UP ACROSS THE CEN SECTION LATE. WILL LEAVE FCST DRY FOR THAT TIME ATTM BUT MID-SHIFT WILL HAVE TO WATCH. WILL ALSO LEAVE FRIDAY DRY. CURRENT FCST TEMPS SEEM REASONABLE FOR THE MOST PART. HOWEVER WILL RAISE LOWS TONIGHT FOR SCEN/SE SECTIONS. WILL ALSO RAISE LOWS TOMORROW NIGHT SLIGHTLY WITH SOUTHERLY RETURN FLOW. EXTENDED LOOKS FINE. HOWEVER WILL PUSH PRECIP CHCS SAT TO LATE SAT. FCSTID = 7/NRR ICT 65 83 65 91 / 70 30 10 5 HUT 61 86 62 92 / 40 10 10 5 EWK 62 85 63 91 / 40 10 10 5 EQA 66 84 63 90 / 70 30 10 5 WLD 67 82 65 90 / 70 30 10 5 RSL 57 86 60 92 / 5 10 10 5 GBD 58 86 60 92 / 5 10 10 5 SLN 58 87 60 92 / 5 10 10 5 MPR 60 87 60 92 / 40 10 10 5 CFV 68 80 65 89 / 80 30 10 5 CNU 67 81 65 89 / 80 30 10 5 K88 66 82 65 89 / 80 30 10 5 .ICT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES KSZ069>072...KSZ083...KSZ092>096...KSZ098>100.
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, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 60 min |
| Jun 20, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.