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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 29, 1998Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1998, 8:21 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min. 2 reports 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 29, 1998, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1998, 9:20 PM CDT
In force: 59 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 29, 8:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70	Bucyrus, KS	The Miami County Sheriff's Office reported a wind gust to 60 MPH during a severe thunderstorm 2 miles west of Bucyrus. The winds were observed at the intersection of Highway 169 and 223rd Street. A wind gust to 70 MPH was observed a mile north of Paola near Hi
Jun 29, 9:00 PM CDT	Hail 1	Paola, KS	The 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 29, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 76 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: 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

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

848 
WFUS1 KMCI 300122 RRA
TORMCI
KSC121-300220-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO
821 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
     NORTHERN MIAMI COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 920 PM CDT

* AT 821 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR...INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF HILLSDALE...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF OLATHE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE...
     8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HILLSDALE AT 825 PM CDT
     6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HILLSDALE AT 830 PM CDT
     OVER HILLSDALE AT 840 PM CDT
     NEAR SOMERSET AT 850 PM CDT
     6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOUISBURG AT 905 PM CDT

A FUNNEL CLOUD HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IN ADDITION LARGE 
HAIL UP TO TWO AND ONE HALF INCHES IN DIAMETER IS POSSIBLE AND WIND 
GUSTS TO 90 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN
THE BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING

LAT...LON 3874 9506 3856 9505 3855 9462 3874 9461

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth, Wyandotte	57 min
Jun 29, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	50 min
Jun 29, 8:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson	39 min
Jun 29, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Miami	45 min
Jun 29, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	54 min
Jun 29, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	47 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.