Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1998, 6:20 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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
- Aug 27, 1998, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1998, 7:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ellis County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 6:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Victoria, 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1299 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 272320 RRA SVRDDC KSC051-280010- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 620 PM CDT THU AUG 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 710 PM CDT * AT 619 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER VICTORIA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WALKER BY 625 PM CDT RURAL RESIDENTS OF EASTERN ELLIS COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...M OVE TO A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. D.STEINMETZ/MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 51 min |
| Aug 26, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 33 min |
| Aug 27, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 51 min |
| Aug 27, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade | 50 min |
| Aug 27, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 50 min |
| Aug 27, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 50 min |
| Aug 27, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 30 min |
| Aug 27, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 5:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 49 min |
| Aug 27, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 48 min |
| Aug 27, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 46 min |
| Aug 27, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 48 min |
| Aug 27, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 36 min |
| Aug 27, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 49 min |
| Aug 27, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 6:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Gray | 3 hr |
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.