Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1999, 5:49 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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
- Jun 22, 1999, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1999, 6:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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 22, 5:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Mingo, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 222250 RRA SVRGLD KSC193-222355- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 449 PM MDT (549 PM CDT) TUE JUN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 655 PM CDT (555 PM MDT) * AT 548 PM CDT... GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTH OF OAKLEY OR 6 MILES ~SOUTHEAST OF HALFORD... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT... RURAL RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SKIPPER
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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 22, 3:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 220 PM MDT (320 PM CDT) TUE JUN 22 1999 ...MAIN CHALLENGES TODAY INVOLVE HOW FAR COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO CWA ALONG WITH PRECIP CHANCES... 19Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM WESTERN SD SOUTHWEST INTO SOUTHERN WY AND MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. SURFACE LOW WAS FORMING OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO. SOUTHERLY SURFACE WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH OVER WESTERN KS CONTINUE TO BRING WARM MOIST AIR INTO THE REGION. LATEST IR SATELLITE AND KGLD RADAR SHOWS THUNDERSTORMS NOW FIRING TO OUR WEST AND OVER PORTIONS OF OUR NORTHERN CWA. AT 30H LEVELS EARLIER ANALYSIS SHOWED 90KT JET DIVING SOUTHEAST OVER WA AND ID WITH A 50KT JET MOVING NORTHEAST OVER NM AND TX PANHANDLE. WENT WITH A COMBINATION OF AVN AND ETA MODELS SINCE BOTH ARE IDENTICAL IN THEIR HANDLING OF SURFACE AND UPPER AIR FEATURES ACROSS THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE COUNTRY OUT THROUGH 48 HOURS. AS FRONT TO OUR NORTH ADVANCES SOUTH OVER THE CWA INTO TOMORROW GOOD LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ENHANCED WITH DAYTIME HEATING WILL SERVE TO FOCUS SCATTERED CONVECTION INTO THIS EVENING MOST OF CWA. THE STRONGER STORMS SHOULD ADVANCE SOUTH WITH THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. THE FRONT IS PROGGED TO SLOWLY MOVE INTO OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES DURING THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY. WINDS SHOULD BECOME NORTHEAST TO EAST ON WEDNESDAY RESULTING IN SOME UPSLOPE FLOW. THUS KEPT CHANCE POPS ALL CWA TONIGHT AND WIDELY SCATTERED POPS NEXT 3 PERIODS. DUE TO THE WEAKNESS OF THIS FRONT AND 85H AND 70H TEMPS BY AVN AND ETA LITTLE CHANGE IN TEMPS SHOULD OCCUR. WITH UPSLOPE FLOW DUE TO EAST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY COULD SEE SOME LOW STRATUS CLOUDINESS ALONG WITH MAYBE PATCHY AREAS OF FOG WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE HOW FAR FRONT ADVANCES ON WEDNESDAY. WENT WITH FWC MOS AND FAN GUIDANCE FOR TEMPS FIRST PERIOD AND A CATEGORY BELOW GUIDANCE FOR MAX TEMPS FOR WEDNESDAY DUE TO UPSLOPE FLOW AND MORE CLOUDINESS. IN THE EXTENDED... MRF SHOWS HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE BUILDING INTO AREA FROM THE WEST LATER IN THE WEEK WITH DRIER AND WARMER WEATHER IN STORE BY THE WEEKEND. WITH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND AFTERNOON HEATING KEPT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY WITH DRY WEATHER BEYOND THAT TIME FRAME. .GLD...NONE. LAMMERS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 5:04 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
COZ090-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-230400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 404 PM MDT TUE JUN 22 1999 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS...SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND A PORTION OF NORTHEAST COLORADO UNTIL 10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT)... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS...SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND A PORTION OF NORTHEAST COLORADO. THIS WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT) AND INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...CHEYENNE...RAWLINS...DECATUR...NORTON...SHERMAN... THOMAS...SHERIDAN...GRAHAM...WALLACE...LOGAN...GOVE...GREELEY AND WICHITA. IN NEBRASKA THE WATCH INCLUDES...DUNDY...HITCHCOCK AND RED WILLOW COUNTIES. IN COLORADO...YUMA COUNTY. AN UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE IN COMBINATION WITH ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING INTO EARLY TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. IF OUTSIDE...MOVE TO SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION SERVICE PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. SULLIVAN
Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:26 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
426 PM MDT TUE JUN 22 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0335 PM 9 S MC COOK NE .5 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 RED WILLOW
0400 PM 7 NE INDIANOLA NE .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 RED WILLOW
0407 PM 8 S HERNDON KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 RAWLINS
0408 PM 11 WSW OBERLIN KS .88 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 DECATUR
TABERLocal storm report, Jun 22, 5:26 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
426 PM MDT TUE JUN 22 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0335 PM 9 S MC COOK NE .5 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 RED WILLOW
0400 PM 7 NE INDIANOLA NE .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 RED WILLOW
0407 PM 8 S HERNDON KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 RAWLINS
0408 PM 11 WSW OBERLIN KS .88 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 DECATUR
TABERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 65 min |
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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.