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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2000, 4:55 PM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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
- Jun 13, 2000, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 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), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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 132156 TORICT KSC159-132230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 455 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RICE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT AT 453 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON...OR 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE JUST NORTH OF STERLING AROUND 500 PM CDT... NEAR LYONS AROUND 510 PM CDT... 7 MILES SOUTH OF LITTLE RIVER AROUND 530 PM CDT... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW! STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FORM RICE COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3828 9829 3818 9820 3827 9793 3841 9801 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, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 30 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
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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.