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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Wichita, KS

March 23, 2000Barton County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2000, 5:53 PM CST for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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
Mar 23, 2000, 5:53 PM CST (23:53 UTC)
Expired
Mar 23, 2000, 6:45 PM CST
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Barton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2000-03-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2000-03-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
633 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KICT 232356
TORICT
KSC009-240045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
553 PM CST THU MAR 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 645 PM CST.

* AT 553 PM CST A REPORTS OF SMALL TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED 
  JUST SOUTH OF BARTON COUNTY...OR 11 MILES SOUTH OF GREAT BEND.
  THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE
  NEAR GREAT BEND AROUND 625 PM CST...

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDY
BUILDING OR UNDERGROUND SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A
DITCH...CULVERT OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BARTON COUNTY UNTIL
645 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3822 9897 3817 9878 3845 9866 3849 9894

HYSELL
&

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 9:21 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningICTKingman6 hr
Mar 23, 3:05 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningICTKingman3 hr
Mar 23, 4:09 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningICTSedgwick3 hr
Mar 23, 5:45 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningICTKingman4 hr

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.