Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 625
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 26, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2000, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Atchison County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Henry County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 57 min |
| Jul 26, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 39 min |
| Jul 26, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 39 min |
| Jul 26, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 58 min |
| Jul 26, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 55 min |
| Jul 26, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 47 min |
| Jul 26, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 63 min |
| Jul 26, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 53 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 2067 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
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 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha | 5 hr |
| Jul 26, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 27, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 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.