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Tornado Watch 362

May 26, 200052 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT for 52 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 52 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	65 min
May 26, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	61 min
May 26, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary	20 min
May 26, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	25 min
May 26, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	46 min
May 26, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	55 min
May 26, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	31 min
May 26, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	39 min
May 26, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Morris	60 min
May 26, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson	42 min
May 26, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Morris	29 min
May 26, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osage, Shawnee	42 min
May 26, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Wabaunsee	39 min
May 26, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	38 min
May 26, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas	43 min
May 26, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Franklin	31 min
May 26, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	40 min

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS9 KMKC 261855
MKC WW 261855
KSZ000-270200-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 362
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
155 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

   CENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS                             

EFFECTIVE THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 230 PM UNTIL 900
PM CDT.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 95 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA KANSAS TO 60 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF WICHITA KANSAS.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. 
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.


DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AHEAD OF UPPER
TROUGH WHERE AIR MASS IS RAPIDLY DESTABLIZING. DEEP LAYER SHEAR
WILL SUPPORT SUPERCELLS PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED
TORNADOES.


AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERS
TORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 3 INCHES.  EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS.  A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. 
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 25025.


...VESCIO

;395,0951 370,0945 370,0982 395,0985;

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 12:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Harper and 5 more	6 hr
May 26, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bourbon, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 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.