Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Hastings, NE

May 6, 1998Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1998, 8:10 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
May 6, 1998, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1998, 8:55 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 6, 8:28 PM CDTHail 0.75Beloit, 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 216 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1998-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 149 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1998-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

151 
WUUS1 KGRI 070111 RRA
SVRGRI
KSC123-141-070155-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
810 PM CDT WED MAY 6 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PEOPLE IN...
  SOUTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  SOUTHEASTERN OSBORNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 855 PM CDT

* AT 807 PM ...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...OR 10 MILES
  WEST OF HUNTER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  TIPTON AND HUNTER AROUND 830 PM

LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS

DDN/LEW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.