Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 4:36 PM CDT for Clay County, Riley County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- Aug 7, 2000, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, KS, Riley County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 4:54 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Green, KS | |
| Aug 7, 4:58 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Green, KS | |
| Aug 7, 4:58 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Green, KS | |
| Aug 7, 5:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Green, KS | Golfball size hail broke the windshield of a patrol car. |
| Aug 7, 5:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Randolph, 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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 1219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KTOP 072137 SVRTOP KSC027-161-072215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 436 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHWESTERN RILEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 433 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF GREEN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF CLAY CENTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... LEONARDVILLE GREEN LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS ST ORM. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 12:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 27 min |
| Aug 7, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Riley | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Shawnee | 29 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.