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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Wichita, KS

May 30, 1999Saline County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1999, 7:44 PM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min. 5 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
May 30, 1999, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1999, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Saline County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 30, 7:45 PM CDTHail 1.75Glendale, KS
May 30, 7:50 PM CDTHail 1.75Salina, KS
May 30, 7:52 PM CDTHail 1.75Glendale, KS
May 30, 8:15 PM CDTHail 1.75Hedville, KS
May 30, 8:28 PM CDTHail 0.75Salina, 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1999-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 978 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1999-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
978 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1428 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.4

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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 Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 1:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson, Saline56 min
May 31, 1:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper42 min
May 31, 2:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman23 min
May 31, 3:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Cowley38 min
May 31, 3:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Cowley66 min
May 31, 4:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.