Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1999, 7:54 PM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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
- Jun 22, 1999, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1999, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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.
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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 2118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 18.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 230055 TORGLD KSC203-230130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 654 PM MDT (754 PM CDT) TUE JUN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WICHITA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT (730 PM MDT) * AT 753 PM CDT... LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEOTI OR 7 MILES NORTH OF LYDIA. THE TORNADO WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT... RURAL RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! $$ SKIPPER &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 22, 3:26 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:26 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 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
Local storm report, Jun 22, 6:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
505 PM MDT TUE JUN 22 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0402 PFM 2 W OBERLIN KS 1 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 DECATURLocal storm report, Jun 22, 6:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
505 PM MDT TUE JUN 22 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0402 PFM 2 W OBERLIN KS 1 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 DECATURLocal storm report, Jun 22, 6:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
522 PM MDT TUE JUN 22 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0443 PM 5 SE WINONA KS 1 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 LOGAN
0450 PM 9 E MINGO KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 THOMASLocal storm report, Jun 22, 6:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
522 PM MDT TUE JUN 22 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0443 PM 5 SE WINONA KS 1 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 LOGAN
0450 PM 9 E MINGO KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 THOMASLocal storm report, Jun 22, 7:21 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
621 PM MDT TUE JUN 22 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0600 PLM 3 S MARIENTHAL KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/99 WICHITALocal storm report, Jun 22, 7:24 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
624 PM MDT TUE JUN 22 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0515 PXM KIRK CO WIND DAMAGE
06/22/99 YUMA 4 INCH DIAMTER TREE
BRANCHES BROKENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 59 min |
| Jun 22, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wichita | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 9:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Wichita | 3 hr |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.