Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1999, 7:07 PM CDT for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 23 min. 2 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 4, 1999, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1999, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cimarron County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:18 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Griggs, OK | The Boise City Sheriff's Office reported tree limbs and power poles down. |
| Jun 4, 7:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Keyes, OK |
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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 3659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 9:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Texas | 26 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999
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.