Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1999, 6:58 PM CDT for Butler County, Marion County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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
- Aug 26, 1999, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1999, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Butler County, KS, Marion County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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 26, 7:02 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Burns, KS | |
| Aug 26, 7:02 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Burns, KS | Also reported by emergency manager. |
| Aug 26, 7:19 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Whitewater, KS | Severe thunderstorm winds ranged from 52-56kts. |
| Aug 26, 7:36 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | De Graff, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.