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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1999, 2:58 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 1999, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1999, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 4, 2:50 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 2:50 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 4, 2:03 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
KSZ032-033-047>053-O67>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-041920- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 203 PM CDT TUE MAY 4 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA IS ACTIVATING OUR SKYWARN SPOTTER NETWORK. A SKYWARN OPERATOR IS MONITORING AREA NETWORKS. THE PRIMARY SKYWARN FREQUENCY IS 146.94 MHZ. SECONDARY FREQUENCIES ARE ALSO BEING MONITORED ON 146.82 AND 145.13 MHZ. HOWERTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 43 min |
| May 3, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 37 min |
| May 3, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 61 min |
| May 3, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 65 min |
| May 3, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 64 min |
| May 3, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 63 min |
| May 3, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 61 min |
| May 3, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 46 min |
| May 3, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 48 min |
| May 3, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chase | 62 min |
| May 3, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 63 min |
| May 3, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 65 min |
| May 4, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 64 min |
| May 4, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 60 min |
| May 4, 8:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 3 hr |
| May 4, 8:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 3 hr |
| May 4, 10:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 25 min |
| May 4, 11:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 3 hr |
| May 4, 12:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 37 min |
| May 4, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 45 min |
| May 4, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 30 min |
| May 4, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 46 min |
| May 4, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 30 min |
| May 4, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 26 min |
| May 4, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Saline | 50 min |
| May 4, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 49 min |
| May 4, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 35 min |
| May 4, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.