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Tornado Watch 352

June 1, 199911 counties in Arkansas; 35 counties in Missouri; 11 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 1, 1999, 3:45 PM CDT for 11 counties in Arkansas; 35 counties in Missouri; 11 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 1999, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1999, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 57 counties

Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Washington County, AR, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Cole County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Osage County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware, Mayes	49 min
Jun 1, 4:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Camden, Laclede	52 min
Jun 1, 4:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Cole	48 min
Jun 1, 4:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Miller	34 min
Jun 1, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	35 min
Jun 1, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Miller, Pulaski	65 min
Jun 1, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes	43 min
Jun 1, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dallas, Polk	51 min
Jun 1, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Webster	51 min
Jun 1, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Cole, Osage	49 min
Jun 1, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	39 min
Jun 1, 5:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee	33 min
Jun 1, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	65 min
Jun 1, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Maries	63 min
Jun 1, 5:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski	62 min
Jun 1, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner	54 min
Jun 1, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	35 min
Jun 1, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	33 min
Jun 1, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	48 min
Jun 1, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	66 min
Jun 1, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Crawford	51 min
Jun 1, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Phelps	20 min
Jun 1, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin	51 min
Jun 1, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Franklin	50 min
Jun 1, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Pulaski	34 min
Jun 1, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell	49 min
Jun 1, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dent, Phelps	36 min
Jun 1, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee	41 min
Jun 1, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	51 min
Jun 1, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	39 min
Jun 1, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Crawford	49 min
Jun 1, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Wright	34 min
Jun 1, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee	50 min
Jun 1, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dent	51 min
Jun 1, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	58 min
Jun 1, 7:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Texas	52 min
Jun 1, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	49 min
Jun 1, 8:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dent	2 hr
Jun 1, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	49 min

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -321 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 261 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Sebastian	5 hr
Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Audrain, Boone, Caldwell, Callaway, Carroll and 32 more	6 hr
Jun 1, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Lincoln, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren, City of Saint Louis	6 hr
Jun 1, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 18 more	5 hr
May 31, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Love	6 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.