Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 368
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT for 39 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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.
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 45 min |
| May 26, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 59 min |
| May 26, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 52 min |
| May 26, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 58 min |
| May 26, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 40 min |
| May 26, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 47 min |
| May 26, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 46 min |
| May 26, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 38 min |
| May 26, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 36 min |
| May 26, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 63 min |
| May 26, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 46 min |
| May 26, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Rice | 63 min |
| May 26, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 57 min |
| May 27, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 39 min |
| May 27, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade | 46 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 1756 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 21 more | 6 hr |
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.