Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 9:53 PM CDT for Johnson County, Kansas. It was in force for 22 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
- Jun 10, 1998, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Johnson County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 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.
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, 2.9 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
853
WUUS1 KMCI 110254 RRA
SVRMCI
KSC091-110315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO
953 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
JOHNSON COUNTY IN KANSAS
* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
* AT 953 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FROM LAKE QUIVERA TO NEAR GARDNER...MOVING
EAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
NEAR LENEXA AT 955 PM CDT
NEAR OVERLAND PARK AT 1000 PM CDT
NEAR PRAIRIE VILLAGE AT 1010 PM CDT
INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PLEASANT HILL.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 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 3:20 AM CDT, 18 hours 33 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, 6 hours 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 HOWARDLocal storm report, Jun 10, 3:53 PM CDT, 6 hours 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 HOWARDLocal storm report, Jun 10, 9:53 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
953 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0930 PM LINWOOD KS 70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/10/98 LEAVENWORTH WIND GUSTS 70 MPH AND
HIGHER. REPORTED BY
LEAVENWORTH COUNTY EM.
0939 PM PIPER KS 68 MPH TSTM GUST
06/10/98 WYANDOTTE MEASURED WIND GUST NEAR
123RD AND PIPER
0941 PM LANSING KS 65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/10/98 LEAVENWORTH REPORTED JUST SOUTH OF
LANSING.
HUDSONLocal storm report, Jun 10, 9:53 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
953 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0930 PM LINWOOD KS 70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/10/98 LEAVENWORTH WIND GUSTS 70 MPH AND
HIGHER. REPORTED BY
LEAVENWORTH COUNTY EM.
0939 PM PIPER KS 68 MPH TSTM GUST
06/10/98 WYANDOTTE MEASURED WIND GUST NEAR
123RD AND PIPER
0941 PM LANSING KS 65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/10/98 LEAVENWORTH REPORTED JUST SOUTH OF
LANSING.
HUDSONThe 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, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.