Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 6:56 PM CDT for Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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
- Jun 13, 2000, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shawnee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:58 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Willard, KS | |
| Jun 13, 7:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 M | Topeka, KS | |
| Jun 13, 7:12 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 E | Silver Lake, KS | Strong winds downed power lines doing some damage to them. |
| Jun 13, 7:34 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 M | Dover, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 1552 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KTOP 132357 SVRTOP KSC177-140030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 656 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SHAWNEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 653 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA TO 10 MILES WEST OF TOPEKA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... TOPEKA WIND GUSTS OVER 65 MPH AND TREE DAMAGE HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Washington | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Ottawa | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 42 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.