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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Goodland, KS

August 17, 1999Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1999, 10:20 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 17, 1999, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 1999, 10:55 PM CDT
In force
35 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 03:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 17, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Aug 17, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1999-08-18Temperature 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1999-08-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 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
1908 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne50 min
Aug 17, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman47 min
Aug 17, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne48 min
Aug 17, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins50 min
Aug 17, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas47 min
Aug 17, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson42 min
Aug 17, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy62 min
Aug 17, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock48 min
Aug 17, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy49 min
Aug 17, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock45 min
Aug 17, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRed Willow46 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.