Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1998, 2:52 PM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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 24, 1998, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1998, 3:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lane County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Pendennis, 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 24, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 925 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 241950 RRA TORDDC KSC101-242040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 252 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 340 PM CDT * AT 250 PM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHIELDS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED SHIELDS BY 310 PM CDT PENDENNIS BY 325 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN A BASEMENT. IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE BELL/MCCAMMON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 49 min |
| May 23, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 50 min |
| May 23, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 50 min |
| May 23, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 48 min |
| May 23, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 45 min |
| May 23, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Kiowa | 33 min |
| May 23, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 29 min |
| May 23, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 48 min |
| May 23, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 45 min |
| May 23, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 49 min |
| May 24, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 46 min |
| May 24, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 46 min |
| May 24, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 46 min |
| May 24, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Trego | 47 min |
| May 24, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 47 min |
| May 24, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 49 min |
| May 24, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 50 min |
| May 24, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 47 min |
| May 24, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 32 min |
| May 24, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 47 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.