Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1999, 6:19 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report 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 9, 1999, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1999, 7:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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 9, 6:22 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Greensburg, 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1791 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1262 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WUUS1 KDDC 092320 RRA SVRDDC KSC033-097-100020- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 619 PM CDT SUN MAY 9 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 720 PM CDT * AT 616 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES SOUTH OF GREENSBURG... MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED GREENSBURG BY 645 PM CDT INTERSECTION OF H183/54 BY 650 PM CDT THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH AND WIND SPEEDS GREATER THAN 55 MPH. TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR PROPERTY. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BURKE
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 9, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 300 PM CDT SUN MAY 09 1999 FORECAST CHALLENGE THIS PD IS CONVECTION AND SEVERITY TONIGHT. MODELS FAIRLY UNANAMOUS WITH BRINGING UPPER S/WV ACRS THE AREA THIS EVENING. PROFILERS ALREADY SHOWING WIND MAX MOVING INTO THE PANHANDLES. PLENTY OF CONVECTION HAS FIRED IN WEST TX AND UP INTO THE NORTHERN TX PH. DURING THE LAST HOUR...STARTING TO SEE A PUSH OF DRIER AIR OUT OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO. SFC MOIST COVERGENCE SHLD BE INCREASING QUITE A BIT BEFORE 5 PM INTO FAR SW KS. MORNING UA SOUNDINGS...MODIFIED...INDICATE HUGE CAPE WITH JUST A SMALL CAPP. THE CAPP SHLD BE ABLE TO BE BROKEN WITH JUST A LITTLE FORCING NEAR THE DRY LINE. PLUS...MODELS INDICATE COOLING ALOFT OVERSPREADING THE AREA THIS EVENING. ALL TOLD...WL BASE POPS OF CONVECTION FROM WEST TO EAST...WITH LIKELY EASTERN HALF OF CWA. AGREE WITH SELS RISK AREA AND WL MENTION SEVERE. CHC OF CONVECTION ON MONDAY WILL BE HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON THE LOCATION OF SFC BOUNDARIES LAID OUT BY TONIGHTS STORMS. WL KEEP A CHC FOR TRSA EASTERN 2/3 TOMORROW AND TOMORROW NIGHT. ON TEMPS...WENT HIGHER THAN FWC...MORE IN LINE WITH FAN. HUTTON IN THE EXTENDED... TURN AROUND IN THE MODELS THIS CYCLE. MRF NOW OPTING FOR THE DIGGIER SLTN AND ECMWF TRENDING TOWARD A FLATTER PTTN. HARD TO KNOW WHICH WAY TO GO WITH THIS CONSTANT FLIP FLOP. CANADIAN AND NOGAPS STILL LIKE A BIT HIGHER AMPLITUDE PTTN SO WILL GO WITH A MIX OF THE MRF/NOGAPS/CANADIAN. THIS WILL MEAN AT LEAST SOME SORT OF S/W ENERGY ROTATING THROUGH THE HIGH PLAINS EACH DAY AND DECENT INSTBLTY IN PLACE IN LO LVLS. WL KEEP POPS IN EACH PD WHICH IS VERY MUCH IN LINE WITH CURRENT FMR. IN FACT...PTTN IS VERY SPRING LIKE FOR THE REGION AND WL STICK PRETTY CLOSE TO FMR WITH ONLY SOME MINOR TWEEKS AS EVERYTHING FOR THE NEXT WEEK WILL DEPEND UPON WHAT HAPPENS WITH CONVECTIVE SCALE FEEDBACKS. JOHNSON PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE CONTAINED WITHIN THE ZONE FORECAST. DDC 058/078 052/072 050 623 GCK 054/076 050/070 049 422 EHA 050/077 048/069 047 111 LBL 055/077 051/070 048 422 HYS 058/079 052/069 048 735 P28 063/082 059/075 055 735 .DDC...NONE. HUTTON/JOHNSON
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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.