Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 7:32 PM CDT for Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 min. 5 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, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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, 7:33 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Eskridge, KS | |
| Jun 13, 7:34 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 M | Dover, KS | |
| Jun 13, 7:42 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Auburn, KS | |
| Jun 13, 7:44 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 M | Pauline, KS | |
| Jun 13, 7:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Topeka, 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 1759 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1435 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 18.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KTOP 140033 SVRTOP KSC177-197-140100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 732 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN SHAWNEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHEASTERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 730 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF RICHLAND TO 12 MILES SOUTH OF HARVEYVILLE...OR FROM NEAR TOPEKA TO 17 MILES NORTH OF EMPORIA..MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... RICHLAND TOPEKA A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECPT. 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, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 27 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.