Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 468
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 20, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT for 22 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
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 20, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 60 min |
| Jun 20, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 58 min |
| Jun 20, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 60 min |
| Jun 20, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 55 min |
| Jun 20, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 64 min |
| Jun 20, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 57 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 19, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 20, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.