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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 710

November 22, 199912 counties in Kansas; 28 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Nov 22, 1999, 2:00 PM CST for 12 counties in Kansas; 28 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Nov 22, 1999, 2:00 PM CST (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Nov 22, 1999, 8:00 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties

Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Custer County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Washita County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 22, 2:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner24 min
Nov 22, 4:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner35 min
Nov 22, 4:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick31 min
Nov 22, 5:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPottawatomie, Seminole24 min
Nov 22, 5:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln24 min
Nov 22, 5:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Osage, Tulsa41 min
Nov 22, 5:40 PM CSTTornado WarningTSACreek, Osage, Tulsa35 min
Nov 22, 6:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood40 min
Nov 22, 7:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Osage47 min

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1999-11-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 519 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1999-11-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 177 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
519 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 22, 5:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCherokee, Crawford, Labette6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 1999Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 1999Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.