Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1998, 12:03 AM CST for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1998, 12:03 AM CST (06:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1998, 12:50 AM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:03 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 12:07 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Byers, 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.
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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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.
399 WUUS1 KDDC 300604 RRA SVRDDC KSC151-300650- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1203 AM CST MON MAR 30 1998 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1250 AM CST * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED IUKA BY 1210 AM CST PRESTON BY 1225 AM CST * AT 1201 AM CST... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTH OF BYERS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH AND WIND SPEEDS GREATER THAN 55 MPH. TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR PROPERTY. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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, 10:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 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, 12:21 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.