Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1998, 1:08 AM CDT for Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 3 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
- May 15, 1998, 1:08 AM CDT (06:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1998, 1:55 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 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 06:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 1:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Beloit, KS | |
| May 15, 1:45 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 | Glen Elder, KS | |
| May 15, 1:58 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Osborne, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 11:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 14, 9:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 9:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 14, 9:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-150500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 920 PM CDT THU MAY 14 1998 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PART OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SPOTTER ACTION...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY AFTER MIDNIGHT. SYNOPSIS... THE INGREDIENTS FOR SEVERE WEATHER ARE COMING TOGETHER SLOWER THAN PREVIOUSLY ANTICIPATED. AS A RESULT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS NOT EXPECTED TO OCCUR ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING ACROSS WESTERN SECTIONS OF NEBRASKA AND KANSAS AND SPREAD EASTWARD DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN QUITE UNSTABLE...THUS SEVERE WEATHER REMAINS A POSSIBILITY WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER SOURCES OF WEATHER INFORMATION FOR LATER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. BARRITT
Special weather statement, May 14, 9:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-150500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 920 PM CDT THU MAY 14 1998 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PART OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SPOTTER ACTION...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY AFTER MIDNIGHT. SYNOPSIS... THE INGREDIENTS FOR SEVERE WEATHER ARE COMING TOGETHER SLOWER THAN PREVIOUSLY ANTICIPATED. AS A RESULT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS NOT EXPECTED TO OCCUR ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING ACROSS WESTERN SECTIONS OF NEBRASKA AND KANSAS AND SPREAD EASTWARD DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN QUITE UNSTABLE...THUS SEVERE WEATHER REMAINS A POSSIBILITY WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER SOURCES OF WEATHER INFORMATION FOR LATER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. BARRITT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Furnas, Gosper, Phelps | 48 min |
| May 15, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 47 min |
| May 15, 3:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 45 min |
| May 15, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley | 48 min |
| May 15, 11:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore | 43 min |
| May 15, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 49 min |
| May 15, 12:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore, York | 62 min |
| May 15, 12:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk | 43 min |
| May 15, 12:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 37 min |
| May 15, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 45 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.