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Tornado Warning 47, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1998, 8:50 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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
- Jun 23, 1998, 8:50 PM CDT (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1998, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mitchell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 2696 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 13.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 240147 RRA TORGRI KSC123-240215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 847 PM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR PEOPLE IN... MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF FILLMORE COUNTY... INCLUDING THE CITY OF GENEVA...UNTIL 1100 AM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF YORK COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF YORK...UNTIL 1100 PM... AT 1022 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO LOCATED JUST TO THE SOUTH OF GENEVA...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF YORK. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THE COMMUNITIES OF STRANG...GENEVA...AND MILLIGAN WILL ALL BE AFFECTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...AND PEOPLE IN THESE COMMUNITIES SHOULD BE IN YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW! REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED IN THE GENEVA AREA. THE SEVERE STORMS ALSO EXTENDED TO THE NORTH...NEAR YORK AND WACO... WHICH IS JUST EAST OF YORK. PEOPLE IN THE WACO AREA SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 23, 2:20 PM CDT, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:20 PM CDT, 6 hours 30 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, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.