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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 10, 1998Wyandotte County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 9:34 PM CDT for Wyandotte County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 1998, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1998, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Wyandotte County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:36 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
Jun 10, 10:05 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Kansas City, KS	The same severe thunderstorms that produced the damaging thunderstorm winds in Kansas City also dropped golfball-size hail at I-70 and 57th Street.

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 10, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 75 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3869 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 732 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.9
Supercell composite: 19.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 110234 RRA
SVRMCI
KSC209-110315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO
934 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

   * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
     WYANDOTTE COUNTY IN KANSAS
     INCLUDING BONNER SPRINGS

   * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

   * AT 934 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
     SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BONNER SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES
     PER HOUR.

   * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
     NEAR EDWARDSVILLE AT 940 PM CDT
     NEAR KANSAS CITY KS AT 955 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 65 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PLEASANT HILL.

LAT...LON 3920 9491 3902 9490 3906 9461 3917 9461

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 10, 3:20 AM CDT, 18 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 3:20 AM CDT, 18 hours 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
320 AM CDT WED JUN 10 1998

FORECAST PROBLEMS INCLUDE PRECIPITATION CHANCES AND TEMPERATURES
THROUGH FORECAST CYCLE. TSRA/SHRA ACTIVITY DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN
PORTIONS OF FA...ASSOCIATED WITH NORTHWARD MOVING SURFACE WARM FRONT.
H8 PROFILER PLOT ALSO SHOWING 35-40KT LLJ OVER EASTERN KS/EASTERN OK
HELPING TO PROVIDE LIFT. WOULD EXPECT THIS PRECIPITATION TO BE
DIURNALLY DRIVEN...AS INTENSITY OF LLJ BEGINS TO DECREASE AFTER
SUNRISE. HOWEVER...WITH BOUNDARY IN AREA...AND PLENTY OF SURFACE
HEATING EXPECTED TODAY...WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE SOME SCT
ACTIVITY LATER THIS AFTERNOON. AS A RESULT...WILL NOT PUT TIME
QUALIFIER ON PCPN CHANCES TODAY.

BETTER CHANCE FOR MORE WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION COMES TONIGHT...AS
MODELS SHOW H5 WAVE ROTATING INTO CENTRAL PLAINS. IN RESPONSE TO
THIS...MODELS DEVELOP STRONGER LLJ TONIGHT. AGREE WITH NCEP QPF
DISCUSSION...PLACING HEAVY RAIN THREAT OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI IN LINE
WITH EXPECTED TRAJECTORY OF LLJ.

IN GENERAL...WILL GO WITH FWC GUIDANCE...WHICH IS A BIT WARMER THAN
FAN.

MJM

.EAX...
MO...NONE.
KS...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 10, 3:53 PM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
353 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998

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

0505 AM    NEW FRANKLIN              MO    .75 INCH HAIL
06/10/98   HOWARD

Local storm report, Jun 10, 3:53 PM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
353 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998

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

0505 AM    NEW FRANKLIN              MO    .75 INCH HAIL
06/10/98   HOWARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	50 min
Jun 10, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	40 min
Jun 10, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	22 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.