Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 1998, 10:35 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min. 2 reports 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
- Sep 27, 1998, 10:35 PM CDT (03:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 1998, 11:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 10:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Medicine Lodge, KS | Numerous trees were uprooted. |
| Sep 27, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hazelton, 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 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 646 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 280335 RRA TORDDC KSC007-280405- URGENT - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1035 PM CDT SUN SEP 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1105 PM CDT * AT 1031 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF BARBER STATE LAKE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONpS AFFECTED BARBER STATE LAKE BY 1040 PM CDT MEDICINE LODGE BY 1040 PM CDT SHARON BY 1050 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! KRUSE/CICCONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 30 min |
| Sep 27, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 64 min |
| Sep 27, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 48 min |
| Sep 27, 11:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 34 min |
| Sep 28, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 34 min |
| Sep 28, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 46 min |
| Sep 28, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 32 min |
| Sep 28, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 46 min |
| Sep 28, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 64 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.