Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 6:17 PM CDT for Douglas County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. 6 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
- May 26, 2000, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Douglas County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 6:27 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Lawrence, KS | |
| May 26, 6:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Lawrence, KS | |
| May 26, 6:32 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Lone Star, KS | |
| May 26, 6:36 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Lawrence, KS | |
| May 26, 6:36 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Lawrence, KS | |
| May 26, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Eudora, KS | Strong winds took trees and power lines down in Eudora. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KTOP 262317 SVRTOP KSC045-270000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 617 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 614 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLINTON...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOPEKA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... CLINTON CLINTON LAKE BALDWIN CITY LAWRENCE EUDORA CAMPERS AND BOATERS AT CLINTON LAKE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER! A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 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, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 31 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.