Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 4, 1999, 1:12 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Kansas; Jasper County, Missouri. It was in force for 63 min. 2 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 4, 1999, 1:12 AM CDT (06:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1999, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherokee County, KS, Jasper County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:15 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 4, 1:38 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Columbus, KS | |
| May 4, 2:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Joplin, MO |
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 4, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 635 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1366 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KSGF 040613 RRA TORSGF KSC021-MOC097-040715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 112 AM CDT TUE MAY 4 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 215 AM CDT * AT 110 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST EAST OF COLUMBUS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CRESTLINE THROUGH 125 AM WEBB CITY AND WACO BY 135 AM THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. MOVE QUICKLY TO A DESIGNATED SHELTER...BASEMENT...OR INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. FOSTER/SUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 63 min |
| May 4, 1:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 4 hr |
| May 4, 11:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Crawford | 6 hr |
| May 4, 11:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 6 hr |
| May 4, 11:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 6 hr |
| May 4, 11:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 61 min |
| May 4, 5:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 6 hr |
| May 4, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 65 min |
| May 4, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 66 min |
| May 4, 4:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 4 hr |
| May 4, 4:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 4 hr |
| May 4, 5:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Laclede | 49 min |
| May 4, 7:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 51 min |
| May 4, 11:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 6 hr |
| May 4, 12:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dade, Lawrence | 5 hr |
| May 4, 12:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 5 hr |
| May 4, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 48 min |
| May 4, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Benton, Hickory | 48 min |
| May 4, 2:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk, Webster | 3 hr |
| May 4, 2:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone | 3 hr |
| May 4, 2:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Hickory, Laclede, Miller, Morgan | 3 hr |
| May 4, 2:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Taney | 3 hr |
| May 4, 2:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Wright | 3 hr |
| May 4, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Polk | 37 min |
| May 4, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 50 min |
| May 4, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene | 53 min |
| May 4, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 47 min |
| May 4, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas | 25 min |
| May 4, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Laclede | 35 min |
| May 4, 5:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas, Taney, Webster, Wright | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton, Stone | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dade, Dallas, Greene, Polk | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Hickory, Morgan, St. Clair | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Vernon | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Laclede | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Miller | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps, Shannon, Texas | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Maries, Pulaski | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Howell, Ozark | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Oregon | 6 hr |
| May 4, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Ozark | 48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.