Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1998, 10:56 PM CST for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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
- Mar 29, 1998, 10:56 PM CST (04:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1998, 11:45 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jewell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 11:12 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Mankato, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 1000 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1547 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
021 WUUS1 KGRI 300457 RRA SVRGRI KSC089-300545- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1056 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...JEWELL COUNTY AT 1055 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA OR 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANKATO MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. NICKEL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED IN DOWNS AT 1050 PM. PEOPLE IN IONIA...JEWELL AND MANKATO SHOULD TAKE SHELTER NOW. EXPECT WINDS TO 60 MPH WITH THIS STORM AS WELL. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS 80 TO 100 MPH. SO GET INTO A SAFE BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS OR GLASS DOORS. GURNEY &
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 Mar 29, 3:58 PM CST, 6 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 3:58 PM CST, 6 hours 58 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 358 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1998 SHORT TERM FCST CONCERN CENTERS ON ADVANCE OF COLD AIR MASS OVER WRN NEB INTO GID CWA. DRY LN JUST E OF GID CWA AT 20Z MARKS WRN XTNT OF LO LVL MSTR AND XPCTD CONVN. 18Z SFC ANLYS HD ELONGATED LO NE CO TO NE NEB AND PRES TRND IN PAST 2 HRS SHOWS INTENSIFICATION OVR NERN NEB. PRESENT TRND CLOSEST TO NGM/AVN FCST WHILE ETA HOLDS SFC LO FURTHER W. SATL SHOWS LO CLD MASS AND CD AMS N OF SNY-LBF-YNK LN WTH NO INDCN OF SRLY DRIFT ATTM. APRS LO CLDS AND CD ADVN WL RCH NWRN 1/2 OF CWA BY DAWN AND IT WL SPREAD THRUT CWA BY NOON MON. PREFER NGM SFC FCST IN SHT TERM SINCE IT HS HNDLD THE NE NEB LO THE BEST. AVN APRS RSNBL AS WELL. NGM PCPN PTRN LOOKS MUCH TOO WK CONSIDERING STRENGTH AND SLO DRIFT OF GRT BASIN UPR SYS. XPCT PCPN TO CHG TO SNOW IN NW CWA AT TIMES MON...AND THRUT CWA MON NGT. ALL MDLS TAKE A SIMILAR TRACK WTH SYS BUT STGR NGM/AVN SOLN PREFERRED. MOST OF CWA IN FOR SOLID CLD CVR AND SHWRS SPAWNED BY UPR SYS INTO MON NGT AND BACKWASH TUE. SEEMS PRUDENT TO AIM TWD HIGHER FAN POPS AND TRIM DAYTIME TEMPS AT LEAST 5 DEGS. CORRECTED GRI RS 039/045/032/042 -474 ODX SS 034/039/030/042 3573 LXN RS 035/040/030/043 3573 HBR RW 040/047/034/043 0475 BEL WW 042/050/035/043 0475 SCHURR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 10:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 49 min |
| Mar 29, 10:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 39 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.