Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2000, 7:04 PM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. 3 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 11, 2000, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2000, 7:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pottawatomie County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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 11, 7:05 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Alma, KS | |
| May 11, 7:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Paxico, KS | |
| May 11, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Rossville, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 4491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1450 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 30.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KTOP 120006 SVRTOP KSC149-177-197-120035- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 704 PM CDT THU MAY 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN SHAWNEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHEASTERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 735 PM CDT * AT 703 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PAXICO...OR ABOUT 23 MILES EAST OF MANHATTAN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... MAPLE HILL GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT ALMA KS AT 701 PM. LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. 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 11, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 40 min |
| May 11, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 40 min |
| May 11, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 38 min |
| May 11, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 31 min |
| May 11, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 32 min |
| May 11, 9:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 62 min |
| May 11, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 42 min |
| May 11, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 47 min |
| May 12, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 18 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.