Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 446
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 64 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1759 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1435 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 18.3
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 13, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Kingman and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 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.