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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1999, 3:10 PM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1999, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saline County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 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, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 2:50 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| 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, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 32 min |
| May 4, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 29 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.