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Tornado Watch 346

May 31, 199910 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 31, 1999, 5:15 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 1999, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 1999, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 43 counties

Clark County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Donley County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	62 min
May 31, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Jackson	45 min
May 31, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	38 min
May 31, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	46 min
May 31, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Meade	63 min
May 31, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa, Washita	46 min
May 31, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Jackson	46 min
May 31, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	45 min
May 31, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	19 min
May 31, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Meade	50 min
May 31, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	52 min
May 31, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham	33 min
May 31, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Meade	35 min
May 31, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	61 min
May 31, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Major, Woodward	40 min
May 31, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon	39 min
May 31, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa	49 min
May 31, 7:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham	32 min
May 31, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Major, Woods, Woodward	50 min
May 31, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Greer	35 min
May 31, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark	33 min
May 31, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	48 min
May 31, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Harmon	30 min
May 31, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	32 min
May 31, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	57 min
May 31, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Kiowa, Washita	49 min
May 31, 8:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Greer	29 min
May 31, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Greer, Jackson	27 min
May 31, 8:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Greer, Kiowa	35 min
May 31, 8:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Beckham	2 hr
May 31, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Kiowa, Washita	46 min
May 31, 8:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Jackson, Kiowa	27 min
May 31, 9:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa	24 min
May 31, 9:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa	35 min
May 31, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Tillman	28 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 357 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -238 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1419 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 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.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 3 more	5 hr
May 31, 4:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Alfalfa, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Garfield and 21 more	5 hr
May 31, 10:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee and 26 more	4 hr
May 31, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 32 more	4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.