Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2000, 7:47 PM CDT for Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 2000, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osage County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 7:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Carbondale, KS | |
| Aug 13, 7:58 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Burlingame, KS | |
| Aug 13, 8:01 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Burlingame, KS | |
| Aug 13, 8:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Burlingame, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 2494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
633 WUUS53 KTOP 140045 SVRTOP KSC139-140115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 747 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 747 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURLINGAME...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... BURLINGAME SCRANTON OSAGE CITY LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER INSIDE A BUILDING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 29 min |
| Aug 13, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 17 min |
| Aug 13, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 41 min |
| Aug 13, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 27 min |
| Aug 13, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 28 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.