Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1998, 5:56 PM CDT for Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 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
- Jul 3, 1998, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1998, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hitchcock County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -316 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 032257 RRA SVRGLD NEC087-040000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 456 PM MDT (556 PM CDT) FRI JUL 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN HITCHCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT (600 PM MDT) * AT 555 PM CDT... GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCCOOK OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF CULBERTSON MOVING NORTH AT LESS THAN 5 MPH. DIME TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT... RURAL RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SKIPPER/VOJTESAK
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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 3, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 230 PM MDT (330 PM CDT) FRI JUL 3 1998 ...FORECAST PROBLEM WL BE CHC OF PCPN THRU PD WHICH DEPENDS ON TIMG UPR LVL DISTURBANCES AND FRONTAL POSN... BASED ON INITIALIZATION...SATL...AND CURRENT TRENDS...WL PREFER THE ETA IN GENL BUT IT HAS ITS PROBLEMS. ETA PEGGED CURRENT FRONTAL TRENDS AND POSN. BASICALLY THE FRONT ATTM SPLITS OUR CWA INTO A NW AND SE HALF. SATL SHOWG CU DVLPG ALG AND EAST OF A LINE FM NR MCK TO GLD TO NR CHEYENNE WELLS. ALSO ETA PICKED UP CURRENT 700 MB VORT MAX NOW MOVG INTO SRN CO. ALSO APPEARS TO BE ANOTHER WK VORT LOBE NR CO/UT BORDER. SATL AND UPR AIR ANAL SHOW TROPICAL EXTENDG FROM NM INTO CO. CONVECTION CURRENTLY FIRING WITH THESE FEATURES OVR WRN AND CNTRL CO. ETA APPEARS A LTL DRY IN THE ABV AREA. PLUS NONE OF THE MODELS REALLY HAVE THE SFC DPS CORRECT AS WELL...AND ARE TOO DRY. NOT ONLY IS ETA DOING FINE ON FRONTAL POSN...BUT IS ALSO GETTING SFC LOW POSN OVR SE CO FINE AS WELL...HWVR IT LOWERS ITS PRESSURES TOO MUCH. FRONT LOOKS TO REGRESS TO NE/KS BORDER AND THEN STAYS IN THAT GENL AREA FOR MOST OF THE TIME. ETA HAS A STRONG COUPLET OF 700 AND 500 OMEGA BEGINNING TMRW AFTN INTO TMRW NIGHT AS ANOTHER VORT MAX COMES IN FROM THE SW. CONSIDERING UNCERTAINTY OF FRONTAL POSN AND TIMG OF WK UPR LVL FEATURES AND ABV REASONG...WL KEEP A SLGT CHC TO CHC POPS OVR ENTIRE AREA THRU PD. GREATEST POPS WL BE OVR NRN AND ERN LOCATIONS AND TON AND TMRW NIGHT DUE TO EXPECT FRONTAL POSN AND BEST OMEGA. NGM WAS INITD TOO COOL AND TAKES EVERYTHING TOO FAR SOUTH. THIS SPELLS GOING ABV NGM MOS FOR THE MAXES. ALSO WITH HIR DPS...MSTR LVLS...AND CLD COVER...WL GO ABV NGM MOS AS WELL FOR MINS. .GLD...NONE. BULLER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 1:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
KSZ015-016-029-040030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1230 PM MDT (130 PM CDT) FRI JUL 3 1998 ...HEAT INDICES TO REACH AROUND 105 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON... AN ABUNDANCE OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN THE AREA WILL COMBINE WITH TEMPERATURES NEAR THE CENTURY MARK THIS AFTERNOON TO PRODUCE HEAT INDICES AROUND 105 DEGREES. A STEADY SOUTH WIND OF 5 TO 15 MPH WILL KEEP THE HUMIDITY IN PLACE THROUGH THIS EVENING. IF YOU ARE WORKING OUTDOORS OR PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON... REMEMBER TO PACE YOURSELF AND TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS. IF YOU FEEL YOUR SKIN BECOME WARM AND DRY...GO INSIDE A BUSINESS OR HOME WITH AIR CONDITIONING TO ALLOW YOUR BODY TO COOL DOWN DO AVOID SUNSTROKE. WEAR LIGHTWEIGHT...LIGHT COLORED CLOTHING SINCE IT REFLECTS HEAT AND SUNLIGHT AND HELPS YOUR BODY STAY COOLER. DRINK PLENTY OF LIQUIDS...PREFERABLY WATER. MARTELLO
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.