Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1999, 8:55 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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
- May 16, 1999, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1999, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kingman County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 9:13 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Belmont, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 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 16, 3:03 PM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 3:03 PM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 16, 6:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
KSZ032-033-047>053-O67>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 645 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 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. MRU
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 53 min |
| May 16, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 64 min |
| May 16, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 65 min |
| May 16, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 65 min |
| May 16, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 65 min |
| May 16, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion | 63 min |
| May 16, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 63 min |
| May 16, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 66 min |
| May 16, 10:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 3 hr |
| May 16, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 61 min |
| May 17, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 67 min |
| May 17, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 54 min |
| May 17, 12:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 6 hr |
| May 17, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 64 min |
| May 17, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 62 min |
| May 17, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Saline | 68 min |
| May 17, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Labette, Neosho | 55 min |
| May 17, 2:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 6 hr |
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.