Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 1999, 9:55 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 21, 1999, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 1999, 10:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 10:02 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Conway Spgs, 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.
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 Apr 21, 5:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 5:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 445 PM CDT WED APR 21 1999 TNGT: WE BROKE THE CAP, WITH A LINE OF SCATTERED TS DVLPG FROM SW CORNER OF SUMNER CO NNE TO NE HARbVEY COUNTY 5 MILES NE OF KEWK. REPORT OF 1/2 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT CALDWELL IN EXTREME SW SUMNER CO AT 430 PM. HAVE THEREFORE REVERSED FIELDS & EMPLOYED "POSSIBLY SEVERE" WORDING WITH EMPHASIS ON HAIL FOR SC & SE SXNS. ES
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 66 min |
| Apr 21, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 59 min |
| Apr 21, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 46 min |
| Apr 21, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 60 min |
| Apr 21, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 59 min |
| Apr 21, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 38 min |
| Apr 21, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 61 min |
| Apr 21, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 42 min |
| Apr 21, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 63 min |
| Apr 21, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 61 min |
| Apr 21, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 60 min |
| Apr 22, 4:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 4 hr |
| Apr 22, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 30 min |
| Apr 22, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 64 min |
| Apr 22, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 39 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.