Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 1999, 3:24 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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 30, 1999, 3:24 PM CDT (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1999, 4:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scott County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 3:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Modoc, KS | Broke windows out of a patrol car. |
| Jun 30, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Modoc, KS | Reported by law enforcement. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1056 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 302024 RRA TORDDC KSC171-302110- URGENT - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 324 PM CDT WED JUN 30 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 410 PM CDT * AT 322 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTH OF MODOC... MOVING SOUTH AT 3P0 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MODOC BY 340 PM CDT RURAL RESIDENTS OF WESTERN SCOTT COUNTY GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! $$ POAGE/MCCAMMON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 54 min |
| Jun 29, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 50 min |
| Jun 30, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 61 min |
| Jun 30, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 47 min |
| Jun 30, 1:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 49 min |
| Jun 30, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 47 min |
| Jun 30, 1:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 62 min |
| Jun 30, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 32 min |
| Jun 30, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 64 min |
| Jun 30, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kearny | 32 min |
| Jun 30, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 48 min |
| Jun 30, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 45 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.