Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 16, 1998, 7:04 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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
- Oct 16, 1998, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 16, 1998, 7:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 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 00:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Yocemento, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 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
- 1332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 11.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 170004 RRA TORDDC KSC051-170035- URGENT - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 704 PM CDT FRI OCT 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 735 PM CDT * AT 702 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF ELLIS... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED ELLIS V BY 710 PM CDT YOCEMENTO BY 715 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! RB/REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 31 min |
| Oct 17, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 47 min |
| Oct 17, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Pratt | 45 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes in 1998
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.