Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 171, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1999, 5:49 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min. 3 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
- Aug 2, 1999, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1999, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:54 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Arkansas City, KS | |
| Aug 2, 5:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Arkansas City, KS | Tree limbs, 3-5 inches in diameter, blown down in northwest Arkansas City. Also reported by trained spotters. |
| Aug 2, 6:06 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Hackney, 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 text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.