Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1999, 5:41 PM CDT for Baylor County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. 3 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
- May 15, 1999, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1999, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Baylor County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 6:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Red Spgs, TX | |
| May 15, 6:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Red Spgs, TX | |
| May 15, 6:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Red Spgs, TX |
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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 1633 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 15, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 315 PM CDT SAT MAY 15 1999 DRYLINE IS CURRENTLY IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARY IS BECOMING DIFFUSE ACROSS NORTHERN OKLAHOMA. THE COLD FRONT WAS KNOCKING ON THE DOOR BUT NOW SEEMS TO HAVE SET UP MORE IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS AND PERHAPS BEAVER COUNTY OKLAHOMA. 12Z OUN SOUNDING SHOWED SIGNIFICANT CAP... BUT LAPS CONVECTIVE INHIBITION VALUES ARE DECREASING FROM WEST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA TO WESTERN NORTH TEXAS WHERE TEMPS HAVE CLIMBED INTO THE LOWER TO MID 90S AND SOME CU IS TRYING TO DEVELOP DOWN IN KNOX COUNTY. IT STILL SEEMS A BIT OF A LONG SHOT FOR STORMS TO FORM THIS EVENING... BUT WITH CONVERGENCE ALONG DRYLINE... GOOD AFTERNOON HEATING AND LARGE AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY AVAILABLE SHOULD THE CAP BREAK... AM CURRENTLY PLANNING TO KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE POPS TONIGHT IN ALL BUT NORTHWEST AND WILL WATCH TRENDS THROUGH PRESS TIME. SLIGHT CHANCE POPS CONTINUE TOMORROW AS DRYLINE LOOKS TO SET UP CLOSER TO THE 100TH MERIDIAN AND BY 00Z/17 A DECENT AMOUNT OF LIFT DEVELOPS ALONG IT. AND AS UPPER TROF MOVES CLOSER SUNDAY EVENING THE CHANCE OF CONVECTION INCREASES SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS SOME DISAGREEMENT AMONG THE MODELS ABOUT THE SHARPNESS OF THE UPPER TROF BY 48 HOURS WITH THE NGM SHOWING A BETTER DEFINED TROF THAN THE OTHER MODELS. AM A BIT UNTRUSTING OF SPECIFICS WITH ANY OF THEM AS NONE SEEM TO INITIALIZE THE WAVE VERY WELL THAT WAS IN THE VICINITY OF 40N/130W AT 12Z AND HAS LOOKED TO BECOME A LITTLE BETTER DEFINED THROUGH THE MORNING PER WATER VAPOR LOOP. I AM GOING TO NOT BE AS AGGRESSIVE IN BRINGING THE UPPER SYSTEM THROUGH ON MONDAY AND THUS WILL KEEP DECENT POPS THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT BEFORE TAPERING THINGS OFF ON TUESDAY. MEAN UPPER TROF REMAINS TO THE WEST BUT SHORTWAVE RIDGE MOVES THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUS NO MAJOR CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED KEEPING WEDNESDAY DRY THEN INTRODUCING POPS AGAIN THURSDAY. FCSTID = 26 OKC 72 86 69 80 / 20 20 40 40 HBR 68 88 64 81 / 20 20 40 40 SPS 71 90 69 85 / 20 20 40 40 GAG 66 84 58 74 / 10 20 30 30 PNC 70 84 67 78 / 20 20 40 50 DUA 70 85 70 83 / 20 20 30 40 .OUN... OK...NONE. TX...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 15, 12:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 23 min |
| May 15, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Wilbarger | 47 min |
| May 15, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 50 min |
| May 15, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 50 min |
| May 15, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 46 min |
| May 15, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 29 min |
| May 15, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Baylor | 27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.