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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS

April 19, 2000Neosho County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2000, 8:19 PM CDT for Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min. 3 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: Apr 19, 2000, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Neosho County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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
Apr 19, 8:20 PM CDT	Tornado F2	Erie, KS	Forming at 1920 CST 6 miles southwest of Erie, the tornado moved northeast around 35 mph passing just south of Erie at 1931 CST. F2 intensity for much of it's track, the tornado injured 3 people on the southern periphery of Erie as it destroyed or heavily dama
Apr 19, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado F2	Walnut, KS
Apr 19, 9:02 PM CDT	Tornado F2	Hiattville, 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
Apr 19, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Apr 19, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1428 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1062 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 12.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 200120
TORICT
KSC133-200200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
819 PM CDT WED APR 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NEOSHO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT.

* AT 819 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  ERIE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHANUTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  25 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR ERIE AROUND 830 PM CDT...
  NEAR ST. PAUL AROUND 835 PM CDT...
  NEAR STARK AROUND 850 PM CDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW!

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NEOSHO COUNTY UNTIL
900 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3760 9542 3743 9533 3758 9483 3779 9494

OMITT

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 7:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Montgomery	27 min
Apr 19, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Montgomery	35 min
Apr 19, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Labette	46 min
Apr 19, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Neosho	20 min
Apr 19, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	52 min
Apr 19, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	50 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.