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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 29, 1998Pawnee County, Kansas

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 29, 7:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Mar 29, 10:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1998-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1998-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 9:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman46 min
Mar 29, 9:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford47 min
Mar 29, 9:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush49 min
Mar 29, 10:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord31 min
Mar 29, 10:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards46 min
Mar 29, 10:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche47 min
Mar 29, 10:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade47 min
Mar 29, 11:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord48 min
Mar 29, 11:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush50 min
Mar 29, 11:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford47 min
Mar 29, 11:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa50 min
Mar 29, 11:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards49 min
Mar 29, 11:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche50 min
Mar 29, 11:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa46 min
Mar 30, 12:03 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt47 min
Mar 30, 12:21 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.