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Tornado Watch 308

May 22, 199926 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 22, 1999, 4:15 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 1999, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 1999, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 57 counties

Cheyenne County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman	54 min
May 22, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	62 min
May 22, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	60 min
May 22, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	44 min
May 22, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	61 min
May 22, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Hall	56 min
May 22, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	56 min
May 22, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Merrick	44 min
May 22, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	62 min
May 22, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, Polk, York	65 min
May 22, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Thomas	49 min
May 22, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson, Gosper, Phelps	49 min
May 22, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Hall	59 min
May 22, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	49 min
May 22, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	58 min
May 22, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	60 min
May 22, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	60 min
May 22, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	59 min
May 22, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan, Phelps	62 min
May 22, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	42 min
May 22, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	59 min
May 22, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Sheridan	60 min
May 22, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	58 min
May 22, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	63 min
May 22, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	59 min
May 22, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Nuckolls	63 min
May 22, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	61 min
May 22, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	55 min
May 22, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	47 min
May 22, 8:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Smith	66 min
May 22, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Thayer	62 min
May 22, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic	31 min
May 22, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush	43 min
May 22, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	32 min
May 22, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	56 min
May 22, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	53 min
May 22, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	64 min
May 22, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	32 min
May 22, 9:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Osborne	35 min
May 22, 9:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Mitchell	54 min
May 22, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	68 min
May 22, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ottawa	48 min

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 333 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -244 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1297 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 18 more	4 hr
May 22, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson and 9 more	4 hr
May 22, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Burt and 25 more	7 hr
May 22, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Banner, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Kimball	7 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.