Tornado Warning 18, NWS Topeka, KS

Issued

May 22, 1999, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)

Expired

May 22, 1999, 11:00 PM CDT

In force

44 min

Issued by

NWS Topeka, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Dickinson County, KS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

999 
WFUS1 KTOP 230318 RRA
TORTOP
KSC041-230400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1016 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DICKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1015 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF
  TALMAGE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF SALINA...MOVING SOUTHEAST 
AT 20 MPH.  ANOTHER AREA OF ROTATION WAS INDICATED JUST EAST OF 
ABILENE ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  MOONLIGHT
  CHAPMAN
  ENTERPRISE
  ABILENE

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 22, 2:49 PM CDT, 7 hours 27 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
249 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1999

PRECIP TONIGHT MAIN FORECAST CONCERN.

19Z SURFACE MAP SHOWED SYNOPTIC COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO NORTHWESTERN
NEBRASKA.  LOW 60S DEW POINTS WERE BEGINNING TO POOL AHEAD OF THIS
FEATURE IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FIRING IN
THIS AREA.  FARTHER SOUTH ACROSS OUR CWA...MID/HIGH LEVEL CLOUD
DEBRIS FROM EARLIER MCS WAS HOLDING TEMPS DOWN A BIT...AND A FEW
LINGERING SHOWERS WERE DISSIPATING.  HOWEVER SEVERAL BOUNDARIES HAVE
BEEN LAID DOWN FROM EARLIER CONVECTION AND COULD FOCUS REIGNITION OF
STORMS THIS EVENING.

AXIS OF BEST INSTABILITY HAS SET UP OVER WESTERN KANSAS INTO WESTERN
NEBRASKA.  MOISTURE CONVERGENCE IN NORTHWEST KS/SOUTHWEST NE WAS
BEING OVERRUN BY MID LEVEL COOL AIR/SHORT WAVE.  EXPECT CONVECTION
TO FIRE THERE SHORTLY THEN DRIFT EAST TO EAST-SOUTHEAST.  AS COLD
FRONT DROPS SOUTHEAST TONIGHT EXPECT CLUSTER OF STORMS TO
DEVELOP/MOVE EASTWARD AS FOCUS OF INSTABILITY SHIFTS EAST.  THOUGH
THERE COULD BE SOME SCATTERED CONVECTION AHEAD OF COLD
FRONT/MCS...EXPECT MAIN THRUST OF RAIN TO BE ALONG THE BOUNDARY.
CONSIDERED FLASH FLOOD/FLOOD WATCH OVER PARTS OF THE CWA BASED
ON LOW FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE VALUES...HOWEVER WITH PROGRESSIVE
MOVEMENT OF THE SYSTEM...WILL NOT ISSUE ONE NOW.

AFTER COLD FRONT CLEARS THE CWA BY SUNDAY MORNING...SURFACE HIGH
SETTLES OVER THE PLAINS BY AFTERNOON.  CLEARING SKIES AND DRIER AIR
EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO MONDAY.  FWC/FAN TEMP FORECASTS ARE NOT
TOO FAR OFF AND CANT ARGUE WITH THEM AT THE MOMENT.

.TOP...NONE

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