Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 592
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 18, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2000, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Barton County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 51 min |
| Jul 18, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 64 min |
| Jul 18, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 61 min |
| Jul 18, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 60 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 2427 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Dickinson and 20 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.