Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1998, 6:24 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. 2 reports 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 23, 1998, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1998, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rooks County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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 23, 6:27 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Plainville, KS | |
| Jun 23, 6:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Woodston, KS |
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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 627 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -464 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 23, 2:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 220 PM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998 ...CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AND TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE FORECAST ARE PROBLEMS THIS AFTERNOON... 18Z SFC CHART SHOWED LOW IN NE COLO/NW KS WITH WARM FRONT LAYING ALONG THE KS/NE BORDER. 65+ DEW POINTS ARE POOLED FROM NRN KS INTO CENTRAL NEB AND INTO ERN SD. UAA THIS MORNING SHOWED SEVERAL S/WS IN A SW FLOW. MAIN WAVE TO EFFECT CWA THIS EVENING IS SEEN ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY MOVING ACROSS ERN COLO. PROFILER DATA SHOWING SOME VEERING ESPECIALLY IN ERN NEB. 3H ANAL SHOWED JET COMING OUT OF THE DESERT SW THIS MORNING AND THIS TOO SHOULD HELP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRW. OMEGA FIELDS ESPECIALLY ON ETA/AVN ARE IMPRESSIVE...9 MICROBARS...THIS EVENING IN THE CWA. LAPS DATA SHOWING CAPES OF 2-3K OVER THE CWA AT 18Z WITH SFC WIND STREAMLINES SHOWING CONVERGENT FLOW IN THE SW PTN OF THE CWA. THIS COULD BE AN AREA TO WATCH FOR INITIAL DEVELOPMENT. NOT SURE EXACTLY WHERE TRW WILL FIRE THIS EVENING BUT AM CONFIDENT THERE WILL BE SOME ACTIVITY. RIGHT NOW FEEL NEB CWA MAY BE MORE UNDER THE GUN THAN KS AREA. 850 TEMPS ON ALL MODELS WARM OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS SO EXPECT TO BE VERY WARM. READINGS OVER THE CENTURY MARK ESPECIALLY IN KS SHOULD BE COMMON. 700 TEMPS ALSO WARM SO BY TOMORROW WE SHOULD SEE FAIRLY GOOD CAPPING. GRI BU 067/095/058/099/062 400 GRIFFITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 31 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.