Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1999, 12:58 AM CDT for Bourbon County, Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 23, 1999, 12:58 AM CDT (05:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1999, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Crawford County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:57 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 23, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 22, 2:40 PM CDT, 10 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 2:40 PM CDT, 10 hours 18 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 22, 11:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055-066>067-077>078-088>089-093>094-101>102-231000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1157 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1999 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS ALONG WITH SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 500 AM... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: IN KANSAS: BOURBON CHEROKEE CRAWFORD IN MISSOURI: BARRY BARTON BENTON CEDAR DADE JASPER LAWRENCE MCDONALD NEWTON ST. CLAIR VERNON A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN KANSAS WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH HAD BEEN REPORTED WITH THE STORMS AND WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT OVERNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SUTTON
Special weather statement, May 22, 11:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055-066>067-077>078-088>089-093>094-101>102-231000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1157 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1999 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS ALONG WITH SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 500 AM... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: IN KANSAS: BOURBON CHEROKEE CRAWFORD IN MISSOURI: BARRY BARTON BENTON CEDAR DADE JASPER LAWRENCE MCDONALD NEWTON ST. CLAIR VERNON A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN KANSAS WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH HAD BEEN REPORTED WITH THE STORMS AND WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT OVERNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 51 min |
| May 23, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 65 min |
| May 23, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Jasper | 41 min |
| May 23, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 47 min |
| May 23, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 50 min |
| May 23, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence | 49 min |
| May 23, 3:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999
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.