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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 31, 1999Johnson County, Leavenworth County, Wyandotte County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1999, 12:29 AM CDT for Johnson County, Leavenworth County, Wyandotte County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. 3 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, 12:29 AM CDT (05:29 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1999, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 31, 12:50 AM CDTThunderstorm WindTonganoxie, KS
May 31, 12:50 AM CDTThunderstorm WindBasehor, KS
May 31, 12:50 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 57Lenexa, 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 text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.