Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 12, 1998, 4:38 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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
- Jul 12, 1998, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1998, 5:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 4:42 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Rolla, 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 820 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
570 WFUS1 KDDC 122139 RRA TORDDC KSC129-122210- URGENT - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 438 PM CDT SUN JUL 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 510 PM CDT * AT 437 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF ROLLA MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED ROLLA BY 455 PM CDT RURAL RESIDENTS OF EASTERN MORTON COUNTY. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR D.STEINMETZ/MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness | 47 min |
| Jul 12, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 33 min |
| Jul 12, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 48 min |
| Jul 12, 4:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Morton | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 32 min |
| Jul 12, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 47 min |
| Jul 12, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 32 min |
| Jul 12, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 48 min |
| Jul 12, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 47 min |
| Jul 12, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 32 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.