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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2000, 6:41 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 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, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 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), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.
543 WUUS53 KICT 202343 SVRICT KSC015-210045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 641 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT. * AT 635 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AUGUSTA...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF EL DORADO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR LEON AROUND 655 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... 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 ISSUED AT 550 PM CDT. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3762 9704 3750 9688 3764 9651 3806 9654 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, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 60 min |
| Jun 20, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 55 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.