Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1999, 9:05 PM CDT for Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min. 4 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
- Jun 26, 1999, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1999, 9:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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 26, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Danbury, NE | |
| Jun 26, 9:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Mc Cook, NE | |
| Jun 26, 9:42 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mc Cook, NE | |
| Jun 26, 10:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Mc Cook, NE |
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 26, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 2382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 270206 RRA TORGLD NEC145-270255- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 805 PM MDT (905 PM CDT) SAT JUN 26 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA * UNTIL 955 PM CDT (855 PM MDT) * AT 904 PM CDT... A SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MCCOOK OR 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF DANBURY... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR DANBURY AROUND 935 PM CDT A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED! GO TO THE BASEMENT! IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO 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 26, 3:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
GOODLAND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 206 PM MDT SAT JUN 26 1999 POPS ARE GREATEST CHALLENGE FOR THIS PACKAGE. HAVE CHOSEN ETA/ECMWF BLEND FOR PERIOD 1 THROUGH DAY 5 PORTION OF PACKAGE WITH A LITTLE WEIGHT GIVEN TO NGM FOR PERIOD 1 BASED ON INITIALIZATION OF MASS AND MOISTURE. SCENARIO IS BEING SET WITH INCREASING FLOW ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH SHORTWAVE AIDING THE FLATTENING OF THE UPPER WESTERN U.S. RIDGE. AT 1940Z CU WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ALONG MAIN FRONTAL BOUNDARY ROUGHLY FROM KLBF TO KSNY. EXPECT TSRA TO INITIATE NORTHWEST OF THE CWFA AND SOME TYPE OF CONVECTIVE CLUSTER TO MOVE ALONG THE KS/NEB STATE LINE OVERNIGHT. OTHER ACTIVITY IS POSSIBLE SOUTH OF CLUSTER AS NUMEROUS OLD BOUNDARIES LIE OVER THE CWFA. A SECOND MCS COULD BEGIN IN THE EASTERN CWFA AND MOVE SOUTH SOUTHEAST. LOWEST COVERAGE LIKELY TO BE IN SOUTHWEST CWFA WHERE 700 MB TEMPS ARE PROGGED TO REMAIN ABOVE 14C...ALTHOUGH MESOSCALE INTERACTIONS WITH TSRA TO THE NORTH COULD COOL THAT AREA ENOUGH TO ALLOW CONVECTION TO SURVIVE. WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE. 3 HOUR FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE RANGES FROM 2.0 INCHES AROUND KHLC TO 3.4 INCHES IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...SO WILL NOT ISSUE ANY TYPE OF FLOOD WATCH AT THIS TIME AND LET THE EVENING SHIFT EVALUATE BASED ON WHERE THE STORMS GO. MUCH OF THE AREA WILL BE CLOUDY WITH AREAS OF FOG BY THE EARLY MORNING HOURS IN THE WAKE OF MCS ACTIVITY AND UPSLOPE FLOW RETURNING. THIS SHOULD COOL TEMPS A BIT FROM TODAYS MAXES. HEIGHTS LOWER ONCE AGAIN IN RESPONSE TO ANOTHER SHORTWAVE IN THE FLATTENED FLOW WITH MID LEVEL VORTICITY GENERATION PROGGED TO OCCUR ALONG THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE. BELIEVE MOST STORMS WILL BE WEST OF THE COLORADO PORTION OF THE CWFA...BUT CONVERGENT TROUGH WILL BE CLOSE ENOUGH TO WARRANT A MENTIONABLE POP. SHORTWAVE CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY... WITH MAX TEMPS COOLER BY A CATEGORY OR SO ON MONDAY THAN ON SUNDAY. LOWS BASED ON PROGGED BOUNDARY LAYER DEWPOINTS. IN THE EXTENDED...BLENDED ECMWF AND UKMET FOR PROGS. CHANCE POPS MONDAY NIGHT ALL AREAS. CHANCE TSRA FOR COLORADO COUNTIES ON TUESDAY WITH CHANCE ALL OF CWFA WEDNESDAY. COULD STILL HAVE SOME LEFTOVER SHOWERS THURSDAY...BUT FRONTAL BOUNDARY LOOKS TO BE ALL THE WAY TOWARD RED RIVER VALLEY WEDNESDAY WHILE ENERGY EJECTS FROM TROUGH MOVING OVER THE CWFA. TEMPS NEAR NORMAL TUESDAY AND THEN BELOW NORMAL WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. .GLD...NONE. ENTWISTLE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:58 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-270600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 258 PM MDT SAT JUN 26 1999 HERE IS THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS... SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND EASTERN COLORADO. ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... LOW PRESSURE WAS OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON WITH A NORTH- SOUTH TROUGH ALONG THE COLORADO-KANSAS BORDER. SOUTHERLY WINDS CONTINUED TO DRAW ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AHEAD OF THESE FEATURES. A COLD FRONT EXTENDS FROM SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS INTO NORTHEAST COLORADO. DAYTIME HEATING AND WEAK DISTURBANCES ALOFT WILL TRIGGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD INITIATE NEAR THE COLD FRONT WITH OTHER STORMS FORMING ALONG THE COLORADO-KANSAS BORDER. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS FOR THE ENTIRE TRI STATE REGION WITH THE GREATEST THREAT BEING ALONG AND NORTH OF A HILL CITY TO GOODLAND KANSAS TO FLAGLER COLORADO LINE. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A FEW TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE FRONT WITH THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY OVER YUMA AND KIT CARSON COUNTIES IN COLORADO...DUNDY COUNTY NEBRASKA...AND CHEYENNE COUNTY KANSAS. HEAVY RAINFALL AND THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS EXISTS ALONG THE NEBRASKA- KANSAS BORDER WHERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REPEAT OVER THE SAME AREA. LAMMERS
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:58 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-270600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 258 PM MDT SAT JUN 26 1999 HERE IS THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS... SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND EASTERN COLORADO. ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... LOW PRESSURE WAS OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON WITH A NORTH- SOUTH TROUGH ALONG THE COLORADO-KANSAS BORDER. SOUTHERLY WINDS CONTINUED TO DRAW ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AHEAD OF THESE FEATURES. A COLD FRONT EXTENDS FROM SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS INTO NORTHEAST COLORADO. DAYTIME HEATING AND WEAK DISTURBANCES ALOFT WILL TRIGGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD INITIATE NEAR THE COLD FRONT WITH OTHER STORMS FORMING ALONG THE COLORADO-KANSAS BORDER. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS FOR THE ENTIRE TRI STATE REGION WITH THE GREATEST THREAT BEING ALONG AND NORTH OF A HILL CITY TO GOODLAND KANSAS TO FLAGLER COLORADO LINE. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A FEW TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE FRONT WITH THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY OVER YUMA AND KIT CARSON COUNTIES IN COLORADO...DUNDY COUNTY NEBRASKA...AND CHEYENNE COUNTY KANSAS. HEAVY RAINFALL AND THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS EXISTS ALONG THE NEBRASKA- KANSAS BORDER WHERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REPEAT OVER THE SAME AREA. LAMMERS
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 6:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
COZ090-KSZ001>004-013>016-NEZ079>081-270600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 552 PM MDT SAT JUN 26 1999 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN COLORADO... SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT (1 AM CDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN COLORADO...SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. THIS WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT (1 AM CDT) AND INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN EASTERN COLORADO...YUMA. IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...DUNDY...HITCHCOCK AND RED WILLOW. IN NORTHWEST KANSAS THE WATCH INCLUDES CHEYENNE...DECATUR... GRAHAM...NORTON...RAWLINS...SHERIDAN...SHERMAN AND THOMAS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY THIS EVENING ALONG A LOW-LEVEL BOUNDARY BETWEEN GOODLAND AND MCCOOK NEBRASKA. OTHER STORMS OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING WILL MOVE INTO THE WATCH AREA AS WELL. IF TORNADOES ARE SIGHTED MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES ABANDON THEM AND MOVE TO SAFER SHELTER. 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. LAMMERS
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 6:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
COZ090-KSZ001>004-013>016-NEZ079>081-270600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 552 PM MDT SAT JUN 26 1999 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN COLORADO... SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT (1 AM CDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN COLORADO...SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. THIS WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT (1 AM CDT) AND INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN EASTERN COLORADO...YUMA. IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...DUNDY...HITCHCOCK AND RED WILLOW. IN NORTHWEST KANSAS THE WATCH INCLUDES CHEYENNE...DECATUR... GRAHAM...NORTON...RAWLINS...SHERIDAN...SHERMAN AND THOMAS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY THIS EVENING ALONG A LOW-LEVEL BOUNDARY BETWEEN GOODLAND AND MCCOOK NEBRASKA. OTHER STORMS OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING WILL MOVE INTO THE WATCH AREA AS WELL. IF TORNADOES ARE SIGHTED MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES ABANDON THEM AND MOVE TO SAFER SHELTER. 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. LAMMERS
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 7:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-270600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 258 PM MDT SAT JUN 26 1999 HERE IS THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS... SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND EASTERN COLORADO. ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... LOW PRESSURE WAS OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON WITH A NORTH- SOUTH TROUGH ALONG THE COLORADO-KANSAS BORDER. SOUTHERLY WINDS CONTINUED TO DRAW ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AHEAD OF THESE FEATURES. A COLD FRONT EXTENDS FROM SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS INTO NORTHEAST COLORADO. DAYTIME HEATING AND WEAK DISTURBANCES ALOFT WILL TRIGGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD INITIATE NEAR THE COLD FRONT WITH OTHER STORMS FORMING ALONG THE COLORADO-KANSAS BORDER. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS FOR THE ENTIRE TRI STATE REGION WITH THE GREATEST THREAT BEING ALONG AND NORTH OF A HILL CITY TO GOODLAND KANSAS TO FLAGLER COLORADO LINE. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A FEW TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE FRONT WITH THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY OVER YUMA AND KIT CARSON COUNTIES IN COLORADO...DUNDY COUNTY NEBRASKA...AND CHEYENNE COUNTY KANSAS. HEAVY RAINFALL AND THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS EXISTS ALONG THE NEBRASKA- KANSAS BORDER WHERE STORMS ARE EXPECDTED TO REPEAT OVER THE SAME AREA. LAMMERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 10:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 46 min |
Nearby
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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.