Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 367
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 3, 1999, 4:00 PM CDT for 36 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1999, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1999, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Barber County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 114 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
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Norton | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips | 42 min |
| Jun 3, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 735 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 530 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 687 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 23.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
137 WWUS9 KMKC 032023 COR SEL7 MKC WW 032023 COR KSZ000-040300- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 367 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 319 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1999 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN KANSAS EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 400 PM UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. TORNADOES...HAIL TO 4 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 75 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF HILL CITY KANSAS TO 55 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY KANSAS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. OTHER WATCH INFORMATION... CONTINUE...WW 363...WW 366... DISCUSSION...THE DRY LINE IS SHOWING IN CU FIELD AT 20Z ACROSS WRN KS. THUS EXPECT CAP TO RELEASE SOON WITH EXPLOSIVE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT AS CAPES E OF DRY LINE AOA 5000 J/KG. SUFFICIENT DEEP LAYER SHEAR FOR SUPERCELLS AND TORNADOS. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 4 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 600. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 23030. ...HALES 395,0991 365,0983 365,1011 395,1020
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Harper and 8 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
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.