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Tornado Watch 262

May 14, 19996 counties in Colorado; 6 counties in Kansas; 18 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 14, 1999, 3:00 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado; 6 counties in Kansas; 18 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1999, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1999, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 30 counties

Kit Carson County, CO, Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Thomas County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 4:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	47 min
May 14, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	50 min
May 14, 4:32 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	28 min
May 14, 5:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	30 min
May 14, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	60 min
May 14, 5:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	48 min
May 14, 5:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes	63 min
May 14, 5:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	45 min
May 14, 6:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	63 min
May 14, 6:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	46 min
May 14, 6:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	35 min
May 14, 7:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	33 min
May 14, 7:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	43 min
May 14, 8:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	48 min

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1423 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 1999 Tornado Watches in Colorado, 1999 Tornado Watches in Kansas, 1999 Every tornado 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.