Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1998, 10:58 PM CST for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1998, 10:58 PM CST (04:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1998, 11:45 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pawnee County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:59 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3453 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
059 WUUS1 KDDC 300459 RRA SVRDDC KSC145-300545- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1058 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1998 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1145 PM CST * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED FRIZELL BY 1105 PM CST ASH VALLEY BY 1105 PM CST LARNED BY 1110 PM CST * AT 1056 PM CST... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF SANFORD TO 3 MILES WEST OF ASH VALLEY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...EXPECT WINDS OF 75 MPH OR GREATER...HAIL LARGER THAN ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAIN CAN FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY. YOU SHOULD NEVER TRY TO CROSS WATER COVERED ROADS. BURKE/REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 9:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 9:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 49 min |
| Mar 29, 10:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 10:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 10:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 10:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 11:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 11:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 50 min |
| Mar 29, 11:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 50 min |
| Mar 29, 11:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 49 min |
| Mar 29, 11:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 50 min |
| Mar 29, 11:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 12:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 12:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 49 min |
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.