Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 7:55 PM CDT for Johnson County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 29, 1998, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Johnson County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:07 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 | Johnson Co Arpt, KS | Wind gusts to 65 MPH were recorded at Johnson County Executive Airport during a severe thunderstorm. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 2102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 20.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 29, 3:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 3:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 315 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998 LTL TIME FOR DISC AS SVR WX NEARS CWA. EXTREME NSTABILITY... STEEP LAPSE RATES...CDFNT AND INCREASING MID LEVEL WNDS WILL PROVIDE FOR A GOOD CHANCE OF SVR WX. WITH HI DWPTS AND CORRESPONDING HI PW AND LO FFG VALUES...WL ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TNGT FOR NRN 2/3RDS OF CWA. DRIER AND COOLER AIR TO ARRIVE LATE TNGT AND TUES WITH FWC GUID GENERALLY FOLLOWED.IFT INTO 2ND PD FFA. .EAX... FLASH FLOOD WATCH MO ZONES MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-046 KS ZONES KSZ 102>105-025- DB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 29, 3:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
338 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 AM ODESSA MO WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98 LAFAYETTE 4 INCH AND GREATER TREE
LIMBS DOWN
0630 PM FAYETTE MO .88 INCH HAIL
06/28/98 HOWARD CIVIL DEFENSE
COORDINATOR REPORTS
SEVERAL LOCATIONS SOUTH
OF FAYETTE ALSO
REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE
HAIL.
1054 PM TURNEY MO WIND DAMAGE
06/28/98 CLINTON TREES DOWN, BRICK
CHIMNEY BLOWN DOWN,
WINDOWS BROKEN OUT.
1115 PM 5 S PRINCETON MO .75 INCH HAIL
06/28/98 MERCER
1115 PM 5 S PRINCETON MO WIND DAMAGE
06/28/98 MERCER 4 INCH TREE LIMBS DOWNLocal storm report, Jun 29, 3:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
338 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 AM ODESSA MO WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98 LAFAYETTE 4 INCH AND GREATER TREE
LIMBS DOWN
0630 PM FAYETTE MO .88 INCH HAIL
06/28/98 HOWARD CIVIL DEFENSE
COORDINATOR REPORTS
SEVERAL LOCATIONS SOUTH
OF FAYETTE ALSO
REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE
HAIL.
1054 PM TURNEY MO WIND DAMAGE
06/28/98 CLINTON TREES DOWN, BRICK
CHIMNEY BLOWN DOWN,
WINDOWS BROKEN OUT.
1115 PM 5 S PRINCETON MO .75 INCH HAIL
06/28/98 MERCER
1115 PM 5 S PRINCETON MO WIND DAMAGE
06/28/98 MERCER 4 INCH TREE LIMBS DOWNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 57 min |
| Jun 29, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 39 min |
| Jun 29, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Miami | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 54 min |
| Jun 29, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 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.