Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min. 2 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 13, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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 13, 5:35 PM CDT | Hail 4.5 | Lyons, KS | |
| Jun 13, 5:41 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Lyons, 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 13, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 409 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 132230 TORICT KSC159-132300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 530 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RICE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT AT 527 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON...OR 4 MILES SOUTH OF LYONS. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER STORM WITH STRONG ROTATION JUST EAST OF GENESEO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. AT 529 PM...BASEBALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN LYONS. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! LYONS AND AREAS NORTHEAST OF LYONS...INCLUDING LITTLE RIVER ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER LITTLE P}ROTECTION FROM A TORNADO. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RICE COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3831 9836 3816 9823 3829 9796 3846 9810 DARMOFAL & NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 26 min |
| Jun 13, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 53 min |
| Jun 13, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 31 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000
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.