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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 18, 1999Haskell County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1999, 4:56 PM CDT for Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min. 5 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 18, 1999, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1999, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Haskell County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 18, 5:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 70Tice, KS
Jun 18, 5:00 PM CDTHail 1.75Sublette, KSHigh wind with the hail devestated crops in the area.
Jun 18, 5:20 PM CDTTornado F1Sublette, KSMachine shed heavily damaged, horse trailer turned over and windows blown out of a trailer.
Jun 18, 5:20 PM CDTHail 2.75Sublette, KS
Jun 18, 5:25 PM CDTHail 1.75Sublette, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 18, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 89 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1999-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1999-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 235 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
744 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
235 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
331 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 182155 RRA
TORDDC
KSC081-182230-

URGENT - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
456 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 454 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE THREAT OF
  A TORNADO 2 MILES WEST OF TICE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  TICE                         BY 505 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN A
BASEMENT.  IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE

$$

POAGE/RB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade35 min
Jun 18, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell49 min
Jun 18, 4:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHaskell35 min
Jun 18, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade31 min
Jun 18, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray48 min
Jun 18, 5:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCSeward48 min
Jun 18, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade50 min
Jun 18, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade47 min
Jun 18, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade30 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.