Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1999, 4:30 PM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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
- May 4, 1999, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1999, 5:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 4:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Timken, KS | |
| May 4, 5:04 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Otis, 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WUUS1 KDDC 042131 RRA SVRDDC KSC165-042205- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 430 PM CDT TUE MAY 4 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 505 PM CDT * AT 429 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF LA CROSSE... MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED LA CROSSE BY 440 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. KRUSE/REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 35 min |
| May 4, 11:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 49 min |
| May 4, 1:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 48 min |
| May 4, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 32 min |
| May 4, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 50 min |
| May 4, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 51 min |
| May 4, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 16 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.