Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 758
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 13, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT for 30 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 48 min |
| Oct 13, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 46 min |
| Oct 13, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 30 min |
| Oct 13, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 14 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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.
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.