Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1999, 5:43 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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
- Jul 15, 1999, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1999, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rawlins County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Atwood, KS | |
| Jul 15, 6:26 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Atwood, 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 nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 495 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1241 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Jul 15, 3:43 PM CDT, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 3:43 PM CDT, 2 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED TYPOS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 242 PM MDT (342 PM CDT) THU JUL 15 1999 ...FORECAST PROBLEMS WL BE POSNS OF BOUNDERIES WHICH WL AFFECT CHC OF PCPN AND TEMPS... BIT BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL DUE TO SLOW ARRIVAL OF MODEL AND HAVG TO USE OTHER MEANS IN FCST PROCESS. ALSO MODELS OFFER A VARIETY OF SOLNS. BASED ON RUN TO RUN CONSISTENCY...PATTERN SEEN SO FAR THIS SUMMER WITH FROPAS...AND BETTER INITIAL ANALYSIS ON SFC AND MID/UPR LVL FEATURES WL PREFER THE ETA OVERALL. NGM/AVN LOOK TO NOT TAKE FRONT FAR ENUF SOUTH SO THEY KEEP MSRBL PCPN FURTHER NORTH THAN THE ETA. 7-5H S/W TO THE WEST OF CWA AS SEEN PER PROFILER WINDS AND SATL. PREFRONTAL TROF/FIRST IN SERIES OF FRONTS HAS DVLPD TSRA OVR NW HALF CWA. ALL THESE FEATURES WORK THEIR WAY ACROSS CWA DURG THE NIGHT. LOCATIONS NW OF BNDRY HAVE LEAST CHC WITH SRN AND ERN CWA THE GREATEST CHC. SOME DVLPMENT SEEN OVR SRN WY WITH CAA/JET DYNAMICS. LOCATIONS BEHIND FIRST BNDRY COULD GET AFFECTED BY THAT. STRONGER FRONT EXTENDING FROM SW SD INTO CNTRL WY. NOT SURE HOW FAR SOUTH THIS BNDRY IS GOING TO GET. PRETTY COLD AIR BEHIND STRONGER FRONT BUT BNDRY IS LAYED OUT IN A WEST TO EAST CONFIGURATION. ALSO MAIN UPR LOW WL BE MOVING ALG US/CAN BORDER. ALSO HEIGHTS TMRW RISE BEHIND S/WS THAT ARE GOING TO PASS THRU THE AREA TONIGHT. HWVR... FRONTS HAVE HAD A TENDENCY TO GO FURTHER SOUTH THAN PROGGED IN THIS CURRENT SYNOPTIC PATTERN. WL GO WITH ETA...AND HAVE FRONT GO THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH CWA. THEREFORE WITH DRIER MORE STABLE AIR MOVING IN LATER TONIGHT/EARLY TMRW...GREATEST THREAT OF PCPN WL PUSHED FURTHER SOUTH AND EAST WITH TIME. BASED ON ALL FACTORS WL ALSO GO BLO NGM MOS TEMP GUIDANCE FOR BOTH MINS/MAXES THROUGH THE PERIOD. ALSO GOING BLO NGM/AVN POPS TMRW NIGHT AS WELL. .GLD...NONE. BULLER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 15, 5:14 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
414 PM MDT THU JUL 15 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0405 PM 15 SW ATWOOD KS 1 INCH HAIL
07/15/99 RAWLINSLocal storm report, Jul 15, 5:14 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
414 PM MDT THU JUL 15 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0405 PM 15 SW ATWOOD KS 1 INCH HAIL
07/15/99 RAWLINSLocal storm report, Jul 15, 5:26 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
426 PM MDT THU JUL 15 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0426 PM 15 SW ATWOOD KS 1 INCH HAIL
07/15/99 RAWLINSLocal storm report, Jul 15, 5:26 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
426 PM MDT THU JUL 15 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0426 PM 15 SW ATWOOD KS 1 INCH HAIL
07/15/99 RAWLINSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 63 min |
| Jul 15, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 35 min |
| Jul 15, 6:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 5 hr |
| Jul 15, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 48 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.