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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 29, 1998Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 8:45 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1998, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Miami County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 29, 9:00 PM CDTHail 1Paola, KSThe same severe thunderstorm responsible for the damaging winds throughout Miami County also produced quarter-size hail in Paola.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 29, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1998-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2102 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1998-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 150 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 3:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 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, 8:33 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
833 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
          h ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0705 PM    SOUTH ST JOSEPH           MO    80 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/98   BUCHANAN                        SIGNIFICANT TREE AND
                                           STRUCTURE DAMAGE
Local storm report, Jun 29, 8:33 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
833 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
          h ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0705 PM    SOUTH ST JOSEPH           MO    80 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/98   BUCHANAN                        SIGNIFICANT TREE AND
                                           STRUCTURE DAMAGE
Local storm report, Jun 29, 8:38 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXPlatte60 min
Jun 29, 7:03 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXAdair27 min
Jun 29, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay47 min
Jun 29, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson60 min
Jun 29, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson62 min
Jun 29, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon30 min
Jun 29, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass40 min
Jun 29, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates54 min
Jun 29, 9:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXMacon, Randolph3 hr
Jun 29, 10:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates51 min
Jun 29, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLeavenworth, Wyandotte57 min
Jun 29, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson50 min
Jun 29, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson39 min
Jun 29, 8:21 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXMiami59 min
Jun 29, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.