Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 498
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 30, 1999, 2:15 PM CDT for 34 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1999, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1999, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Barton County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 60 min |
| Jun 30, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 38 min |
| Jun 30, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Scott | 46 min |
| Jun 30, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 66 min |
| Jun 30, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wichita | 48 min |
| Jun 30, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kearny | 32 min |
| Jun 30, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 48 min |
| Jun 30, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1056 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
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 29, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Grant, Gray and 10 more | 3 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.