Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 515
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 29, 2000, 3:15 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado; 23 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2000, 3:15 PM MDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2000, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 5:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 57 min |
| Jun 29, 5:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 5:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 39 min |
| Jun 29, 5:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 67 min |
| Jun 29, 5:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 31 min |
| Jun 29, 6:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman, Thomas | 26 min |
| Jun 29, 6:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 67 min |
| Jun 29, 6:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 6:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 6:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 26 min |
| Jun 29, 6:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Smith | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 6:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 43 min |
| Jun 29, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 56 min |
| Jun 29, 7:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 7:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 61 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2207 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 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 29, 12:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.