Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 429
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 12, 2000, 1:30 PM MDT for Baca County, Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado; 24 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2000, 1:30 PM MDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2000, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Baca County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell, Seward | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 6:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 41 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1247 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000
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.