Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 516
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 29, 2000, 6:15 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; 35 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2000, 6:15 PM MDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2000, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Barton County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 6:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Rooks | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 7:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 7:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 51 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, 8:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 8:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 38 min |
| Jun 29, 8:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 9:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 9:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 67 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1346 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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, 9:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Harper and 4 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.