Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 498
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 25, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT for 41 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips | 44 min |
| Jun 25, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 31 min |
| Jun 25, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jun 25, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 66 min |
| Jun 25, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 51 min |
| Jun 25, 6:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 24 min |
| Jun 25, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 7:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Ottawa | 51 min |
| Jun 25, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 18 min |
| Jun 25, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 61 min |
| Jun 25, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 66 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1510 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 25, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 8 more | 4 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.