Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 5, 1998, 11:19 PM CDT for Grant County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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
- May 5, 1998, 11:19 PM CDT (04:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1998, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Grant County, KS, Stevens County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 11:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Ulysses, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1181 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 060319 RRA TORDDC KSC067-189-060445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1119 PM CDT TUE MAY 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS NORTHERN STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1117 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF MOSCOW MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL RESIDENTS OF SOUTHERN STEVENS AND NORTHERN GRANT. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! KRUSE/MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 44 min |
| May 5, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 47 min |
| May 5, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 35 min |
| May 5, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 32 min |
| May 6, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 33 min |
| May 6, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 31 min |
| May 6, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 62 min |
| May 6, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 47 min |
| May 6, 2:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 34 min |
| May 6, 2:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 44 min |
| May 6, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 31 min |
| May 6, 3:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 61 min |
| May 6, 4:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 50 min |
| May 6, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 33 min |
| May 6, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 46 min |
| May 6, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 35 min |
| May 6, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 33 min |
| May 6, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 31 min |
| May 6, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 34 min |
| May 6, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 31 min |
| May 6, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 33 min |
| May 6, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 35 min |
| May 6, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 36 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.