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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 18, 1998Doniphan County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1998, 12:48 PM CDT for Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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 18, 1998, 12:48 PM CDT (17:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1998, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Doniphan County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 18, 12:56 PM CDT	Hail 1	Wathena, KS	The Doniphan County Sheriff's Office reported quarter-size hail during a severe thunderstorm at Wathena.

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 nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 2794 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 327 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 449 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 6.9
Supercell composite: 26.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

816 
WUUS1 KMCI 181750 RRA
SVRMCI
KSC043-181830-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO
1248 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
     DONIPHAN COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT

* AT 1248 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED...A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF TROY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH
  OF ATCHISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES PER HOUR.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
     NEAR TROY AT 1250 PM CDT
     7 MILES NORTH OF WATHENA AT 105 PM CDT
     14 MILES NORTH OF WATHENA AT 115 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...CAN EXPECT TWO INCH DIAMETER SIZE 
HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH. FOR YOUR SAFETY...MOVE 
INDOORS...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 18, 3:40 AM CDT, 9 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:40 AM CDT, 9 hours 8 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
340 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

LTST STLT/88D RETURNS AND SFC OBS SHOW WAA -SHRA OVER ERN/SERN CWA
AND WKNG SQLLN ENTERING XTRM NWRN MO ATTM. KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON
SRN EDGE OF WRN CNVCTN...BUT AIRMASS APPARENTLY STILL CAPPED ENOUGH
TO PREVENT DEVELOPMENT FURTHER S.

MDLS FAIRLY CONSISTENT THIS RUN...AND HAPPY TO SEE MDL SOLNS
CONVERGE ON AVN SOLUTION FROM PAST FEW RUNS. CDFNT PROGD THROUGH
KMKC JUST AFTER NOON TDY...AND THROUGH CWA BY 19/00Z. ON THE FENCE
ABOUT THE NEED FOR FFA IN NW MO AS FFG VERY LOW...BUT MORE ACTIVITY
BETWEEN SQLLN AND FROPA NOT GUARANTEED...SO MIGHT BE BEST TO
APPROACH CASE BY CASE. TEMPS STILL QUITE WARM...WITH 08Z READINGS
STILL AOA 80F NEARLY EVERYWHERE. SOME MIDLVL COOLING XPCTD AFT
FROPA...BUT STILL WILL CONT TEMPS FROM PREV PKG DUE TO WARM START.

AFT FROPA...MOISTURE QUICKLY BECOMES LACKING. PREV PKG HAS THIS WELL
COV
ERED...ALTHOUGH WL UP TEMPS FRI A TIDGE WITH GOOD W/SW FLOW AND
M/SNY SKIES. SEE NO REASON TO MESS WITH XTNDD.

JHV

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 18, 9:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
915 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

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

0855 AM    MARSHALL                  MO    WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98   SALINE                          BIG TREE DOWN ALONG
                                           RAILROAD TRACKS BETWEEN
                                           MARSHALL A`ND MIAMI

Local storm report, Jun 18, 9:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
915 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

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

0855 AM    MARSHALL                  MO    WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98   SALINE                          BIG TREE DOWN ALONG
                                           RAILROAD TRACKS BETWEEN
                                           MARSHALL A`ND MIAMI

Local storm report, Jun 18, 10:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1028 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

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

0930 AM    BRUNSWICK                 MO    WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98   CHARITON                        TREE REPORTED DOWN

Local storm report, Jun 18, 10:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1028 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

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

0930 AM    BRUNSWICK                 MO    WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98   CHARITON                        TREE REPORTED DOWN

Local storm report, Jun 18, 12:07 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1207 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

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

1203 PM    MACON                     MO    .75 INCH HAIL
06/18/98   MACON

Local storm report, Jun 18, 12:07 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1207 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

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

1203 PM    MACON                     MO    .75 INCH HAIL
06/18/98   MACON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 1:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	43 min
Jun 18, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Wyandotte	55 min
Jun 18, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	60 min
Jun 18, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Miami	81 min
Jun 18, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	27 min
Jun 18, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	75 min

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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.