Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Wichita, KS

September 7, 1999Reno County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1999, 11:39 AM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. 2 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: Sep 7, 1999, 11:39 AM CDT (16:39 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 1999, 12:15 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Reno County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:38 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
Sep 7, 11:50 AM CDT	Hail 0.88	Hutchinson, KS
Sep 7, 11:55 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56	Hutchinson, KS	Major tree damage with several uprooted and limbs 3-4 inches in diameter blown down.

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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1187 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1422 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 7, 3:15 AM CDT, 8 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 3:15 AM CDT, 8 hours 24 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 7, 10:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1029 AM CDT TUE SEP 7 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0930 AM    6 SW ATTICA               KS   HIGH WINDS
09/07/99   HARPER                         DOWNED NUMEROUS TREE
                                          LIMBS - REPORTED BY
                                          AGTAP OBSERVER
KED

Local storm report, Sep 7, 10:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1029 AM CDT TUE SEP 7 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0930 AM    6 SW ATTICA               KS   HIGH WINDS
09/07/99   HARPER                         DOWNED NUMEROUS TREE
                                          LIMBS - REPORTED BY
                                          AGTAP OBSERVER
KED

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 7, 9:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	55 min
Sep 7, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	27 min
Sep 7, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	37 min
Sep 7, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	54 min
Sep 7, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	48 min
Sep 7, 3:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Marion	31 min
Sep 7, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	55 min
Sep 7, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	54 min
Sep 7, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	66 min
Sep 7, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	61 min
Sep 7, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	44 min
Sep 7, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Woodson	56 min
Sep 7, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	48 min
Sep 7, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	46 min
Sep 7, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	64 min
Sep 7, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	58 min
Sep 7, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	54 min
Sep 7, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	43 min
Sep 7, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	45 min
Sep 7, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	52 min
Sep 7, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	63 min
Sep 7, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1999 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.