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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 629

July 28, 200018 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 28, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties

Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

Warnings issued inside it

10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick29 min
Jul 28, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner63 min
Jul 28, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman67 min
Jul 28, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Grant46 min
Jul 28, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber26 min
Jul 28, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa43 min
Jul 28, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNNoble53 min
Jul 28, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods64 min
Jul 28, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMajor51 min
Jul 28, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNNoble, Payne44 min

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 111 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2000-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 248 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2000-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -57 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
248 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-333 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1079 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarton, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Jewell and 19 more4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.