Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 748
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 22, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 41 min |
| Sep 22, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 54 min |
| Sep 22, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 63 min |
| Sep 22, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 46 min |
| Sep 22, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 63 min |
| Sep 22, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 66 min |
| Sep 22, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 59 min |
| Sep 22, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 48 min |
| Sep 22, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 57 min |
| Sep 22, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 60 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 1193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan and 15 more | 6 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.