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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Wichita, KS

April 19, 2000Neosho County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2000, 8:55 PM CDT for Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 20 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2000, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Neosho County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 19, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado F0	South Mound, KS	The same tornado that caused major damage in Parsons, the twister clipped southeast Neosho County where it destroyed a hay barn and blew out the windows of a house.

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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 200200
TORICT
KSC133-200215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT.

* AT 855 PM CDT A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH 
OF SOUTH MOUND...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHANUTE.  RADAR 
SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  SOUTHEASTERN NEOSHO COUNTY.

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 SOUTHEAST NEOSHO 
COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM CDT.

LWAT...LON 3747 9524 3739 9521 3752 9495 3752 9514

RUNYAN


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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, 8:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Neosho	41 min
Apr 19, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Labette	46 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.