Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1999, 7:46 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min. 4 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 31, 1999, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1999, 8:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Comanche County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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 31, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Protection, KS | Mature cottonwood grove taken out. |
| May 31, 7:55 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Protection, KS | |
| May 31, 8:12 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Coldwater, KS | |
| May 31, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Coldwater, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 2285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 010046 RRA TORDDC KSC033-010120- URGENT - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 746 PM CDT MON MAY 31 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 820 PM CDT * AT 745 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF BUTTERMILK... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BUTTERMILK BY 810 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! SLEIGHTER/JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 47 min |
| May 31, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 33 min |
| May 31, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 62 min |
| May 31, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 32 min |
| May 31, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 62 min |
| May 31, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 46 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.