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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 27, 1998Holt County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1998, 5:20 PM CDT for Holt County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 1998, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Holt County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 12:00Z on 1998-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 131 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1998-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 320 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
131 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-327 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1204 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
320 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
459 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Jackson40 min
Aug 26, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLeavenworth, Wyandotte42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.