Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2000, 8:29 PM CDT for Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Apr 19, 2000, 8:29 PM CDT (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Labette County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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 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, 1.5 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 200131 TORICT KSC099-200215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 829 PM CDT WED APR 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LABETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT. * AT 829 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER PARSONS TRI CITY ARPT...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF CHANUTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. *SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... PARSONS... MOREHEAD... DENNIS... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW! IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHERN LABETTE COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3738 9552 3722 9552 3722 9509 3740 9509 RUNYAN NNNN
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, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.