Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 75
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 7, 2000, 6:45 PM CST for 56 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2000, 6:45 PM CST (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 30 min |
| Mar 7, 7:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 43 min |
| Mar 7, 8:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 57 min |
| Mar 7, 9:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 57 min |
| Mar 7, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 65 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1290 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
203 WWUS9 KMKC 080019 SEL5 SEL5 MKC WW 080019 KSZ000-080500- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 75 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 619 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF KANSAS EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 645 PM UNTIL 1100 PM CST. TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 115 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 60 MILES NORTHEAST OF HILL CITY KANSAS TO 50 MILES SOUTH 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. OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 72. WATCH NUMBER 72 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 645 PM CST. CONTINUE...WW 70...WW 71...WW 73...WW 74... DISCUSSION...LOW LEVEL VERTICAL SHEAR WILL INCREASE ACROSS WATCH AREA THIS EVENING AS SURFACE PRESSURE FALLS CONTINUE TO FOCUS OVER KS...DOWNSTREAM OF EJECTING UPPER SHORTWAVE. SW KS SQUALL LINE SHOULD CONTINUE TO PROPAGATE NEWD INTO THIS ENVIRONMENT...WITH THREAT FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES AT LEWP CRESTS WITHIN LINE...AND WITH ISOLATED CELLS AHEAD OF LINE. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 INCH EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 450. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24035. ...CORFIDI 395,0965 365,0950 365,0991 395,1011
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 10:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Neosho | 6 hr |
Nearby
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.