Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 363, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 30, 1998, 1:39 AM CDT for Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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
- Sep 30, 1998, 1:39 AM CDT (06:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 1998, 2:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ness County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3089 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 300639 RRA SVRDDC KSC135-300710- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 139 AM CDT WED SEP 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 210 AM CDT * AT 137 AM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BAZINE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BAZINE BY 145 AM CDT 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...MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REITER/CICCONE
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 29, 3:18 PM CDT, 10 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 29, 3:18 PM CDT, 10 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 318 PM CDT TUE SEP 29 1998 SURFACE BOUNDARY WAS LOCATED ACROSS THE NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES OF THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON AS ATMOSPHERE CONTINUES TO DESTABILIZE. SFC PLOTS INDICATING WIND CONFLUENCE AND MOISTURE FLUX CONV NEAR FRONTAL BOUNDARY AT 18Z. BEST INSTABILITY SEEMS TO BE ACROSS THE EAST. ALL MODELS AREA FAIRLY CONSISTANT AND IN AGREEMENT WITH EACH OTHER IN KEEPING THIS WEAK BOUNDARY NEARLY STATIONARY OVERNIGHT. WILL THEREFORE GO WITH SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS ACROSS THE NORTHERN CWA NEAR THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAN THE SOUTHEAST TONIGHT. THE BIG QUESTION THIS AFTERNOON IS THE SFC HIGH THAT WILL MOVE OUT OF CANADA INTO THE NORTHERN PLAIN AND PUSH A COLD FRONT SOUTH ACROSS THE STATE ON WEDNESDAY. INITALLY THERE APPEARS TO BE LIMITED UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT...HOWEVER THIS GRADUALLY CHANGES DURING THE AFTERNOON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MAINLY BE CONFINED NEAR THIS FRONT. WITH ISENTROPIC LIFT KEEPING CLOUDS AND MAINLY LIGHT RAIN OVER THE AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE SLOW MOVING UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA THIS AFTERNOON WILL EVENTUALLY MOVE INTO UTAH LATE WED. UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE WILL THEN INCREASE AS CYCLONIC FLOW ALOFT MOVES INTO SOUTHWESTERN KS LATE WED NIGHT AND THU. WILL BE KEEP CLOUDS AND PCPN IN THE AREA ON THURSDAY. ONGOING EXTENDED FORECAST LOOKS GOOD. TODAYS MODELS SHOW THE CANADIAN HIGH STRONGER THAN PREVIOUS RUNS...AND THIS SEEMS REASONABLE GIVEN CURRENT OBS OVER WESTERN CANADA. BOTTOM LINE IS THAT COOL CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS HIGH AND UPSLOPE WILL PREVAIL THROUGH WEEKS END. AS UPPER FLOW BECOMES MORE SOUTHWESTERLY WITH TIME AND RETURN SURFACE FLOW SETS UP...WE SHOULD SEE THE COLD AIR SCOUR OUT OVER THE WEEKEND ALONG WITH WARMER TEMPERATURES. PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE CONTAINED WITHIN THE DODGE CITY ZONE FORECAST. DDC 062/076 049/061 049 356 GCK 061/075 053/061 049 356 EHA 059/082 053/061 049 346 LBL 060/082 052/062 049 346 HYS 062/076 050/060 049 354 P28 065/080 055/064 050 236 .DDC...NONE. RB/MCCAMMON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 31 min |
| Sep 29, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 47 min |
| Sep 30, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 31 min |
| Sep 30, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 33 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.