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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 6, 1998Gray County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 6, 1998, 6:20 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. 3 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: May 6, 1998, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 1998, 6:55 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Gray County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 6, 6:50 PM CDT	Hail 1	Cimarron, KS
May 6, 7:03 PM CDT	Hail 1	Cimarron, KS
May 6, 7:05 PM CDT	Hail 1	Cimarron, 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 6, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 47 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1411 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 175 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

459 
WFUS1 KDDC 062319 RRA
TORDDC
KSC069-062355-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
620 PM CDT WED MAY 6 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 655 PM CDT

* AT 619 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 8 MILES NORTH OF CHARLESTON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  CHARLESTON                   BY 635 PM CDT

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

D.STEINMETZ/KRUSE

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 5, 11:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Grant, Stevens	26 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, 6:54 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.