Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 51
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 24, 2000, 11:00 PM CST for 28 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2000, 11:00 PM CST (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2000, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:59 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 12:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 58 min |
| Feb 25, 1:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 31 min |
| Feb 25, 1:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 64 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 470 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 22 more | 5 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.