Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 1998, 8:35 AM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 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
- Sep 29, 1998, 8:35 AM CDT (13:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phillips County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Sep 29, 3:10 AM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 29, 3:10 AM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 58 min |
| Sep 29, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 41 min |
| Sep 29, 8:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 56 min |
| Sep 29, 9:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 55 min |
| Sep 29, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Mitchell | 43 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.