Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 6, 1998, 7:13 PM CDT for Ford 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
- May 6, 1998, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1998, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:21 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Howell, 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, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
761 WFUS1 KDDC 070012 RRA TORDDC KSC057-070045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 713 PM CDT WED MAY 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 712 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOWELL MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL RESIDENTS OF WESTERN FORD COUNTY. 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 6, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 30 min |
| May 6, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 29 min |
| May 6, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 62 min |
| May 6, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 62 min |
| May 7, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 49 min |
| May 7, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 64 min |
| May 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 60 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.