Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 3:09 AM CDT for Brown County, Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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
- Jul 20, 2000, 3:09 AM CDT (08:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, KS, Nemaha County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 3:10 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Hiawatha, KS | |
| Jul 20, 3:16 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Sabetha, KS | |
| Jul 20, 3:18 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Sabetha, KS | |
| Jul 20, 3:24 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 M | Hiawatha, KS | |
| Jul 20, 3:34 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Hiawatha, KS | Strong winds damaged a barn south of Hiawatha. |
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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 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 200809 SVRTOP KSC013-131-200845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 309 AM CDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS EASTERN NEMAHA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 345 AM CDT * AT 304 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF RESERVE TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SENECA...OR FROM 17 MILES NORTH OF HIAWATHA TO 28 MILES EAST OF MARYSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... MORRILL RESERVE FAIRVIEW HIAWATHA WETMORE POWHATTAN ROBINSON WILLIS HORTON EVEREST QUARTER SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED IN SENECA AT 308 AM. THIS EXTENDS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR NEMAHA COUNTY. 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. $$ 58
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 39 min |
| Jul 20, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 30 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.