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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1999, 9:54 PM CDT for Red Willow County, Nebraska; Decatur County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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, 9:54 PM CDT (02:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1999, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Decatur County, KS, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:54 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, 10:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Mc Cook, NE | |
| Jun 26, 10:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mc Cook, NE | |
| Jun 26, 10:47 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Danbury, NE | |
| Jun 26, 10:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Kanona, KS | 3 Inch tree limbs broken by strong winds. |
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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 128 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.
959 WFUS1 KGLD 270255 RRA TORGLD KSC039-NEC145-270400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 854 PM MDT (954 PM CDT) SAT JUN 26 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT (1000 PM MDT) * AT 953 PM CDT... GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF OBERLIN OR 15 MILES EAST OF CEDAR BLUFFS... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORCATUR AROUND 1045 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAMMERS/ENTWISTLE
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, 6 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:06 PM CDT, 6 hours 48 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
Local storm report, Jun 26, 9:35 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
835 PM MDT SAT JUN 26 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0720 PM 6 SSE MC COOK NE .75 INCH HAIL
06/26/99 RED WILLOW
0820 PM 8 SW MC COOK NE 1 INCH HAIL
06/26/99 RED WILLOW
0826 PM MC COOK NE 1 INCH HAIL
06/26/99 RED WILLOW
SVENLocal storm report, Jun 26, 9:35 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
835 PM MDT SAT JUN 26 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0720 PM 6 SSE MC COOK NE .75 INCH HAIL
06/26/99 RED WILLOW
0820 PM 8 SW MC COOK NE 1 INCH HAIL
06/26/99 RED WILLOW
0826 PM MC COOK NE 1 INCH HAIL
06/26/99 RED WILLOW
SVENLocal storm report, Jun 26, 9:44 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
844 PM MDT SAT JUN 26 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0815 PM 9 NNW DANBURY NE TORNADO
06/26/99 RED WILLOW 30 SECOND DURATION
SVENLocal storm report, Jun 26, 9:44 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
844 PM MDT SAT JUN 26 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0815 PM 9 NNW DANBURY NE TORNADO
06/26/99 RED WILLOW 30 SECOND DURATION
SVENLocal storm report, Jun 26, 9:48 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
848 PM MDT SAT JUN 26 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0842 PM MC COOK NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/99 RED WILLOW
SVENLocal storm report, Jun 26, 9:48 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
848 PM MDT SAT JUN 26 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0842 PM MC COOK NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/99 RED WILLOW
SVENThe 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, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 44 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 |
| Jun 26, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 57 min |
| Jun 27, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 50 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.