Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1998, 6:37 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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
- Aug 12, 1998, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 1998, 7:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 12, 2:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 2:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
144 PM MDT (244 PM CDT) WED AUG 12 1998
...CLOUDS AND TEMPS WILL BE CHALLENGES THIS RUN...
AT 19Z...VIS SATL SHOWING ENHANCED CU FIELD MOVING SSEWD THRU NEB
PANHANDLE ALONG WITH SHALLOW CU BACKBUILDING TO THE WSW TOWARDS
GLD FROM MCK/HLC AREA.
WITH PWS CONSIDERABLY LOWER ACROSS 12Z RAOB NETWORK TODAY AND
ETA/NGM QPFS SHOWING LIGHT AMOUNTS IN HLC/MCK AREA ONLY...WILL LOWER
GOING 50 POPS IN WRN ZONES BACK DOWN TO 20 OR 30...AND WORD FOR
EVENING TSRA ONLY AS SUN SETS AND KILLS DIURNAL SC/CU/TCU FIELDS.
AVN/ETA SEEMED TO HANDLE THE WEAK SFC LOW AND STATIONARY FRONTAL
POSITION OVER CWA WELL ALTHOUGH IT APPEARS TO BE ABOUT 100 MILES
WEST/AND 6 HOURS LATE IN WHERE/WHEN IT SAID IT WOULD BE BASED ON
WEAK SPIN OF CU FIELD INVOF LBF AT 1925Z. SFC LOW SHOULD BE INVOF
GLD BETWEEN 01Z-04Z.
BY THEN...SOME ENERGY FROM THE SPIN IN SC WYO SHOULD BE ARRIVING
FROM OUR NW. BAD TIMING FOR RAIN AT GLD...BUT SHOULD KEEP SOME
THICKER MID/UPPER MOISTURE AROUND AWHILE ON THURSDAY. WILL STICK
WITH FAN FOR TEMPS/POPS AS NGM NOT COMPENSATING FOR WET GROUND
CWA-WIDE. CANT RULE OUT -RA FOR A TIME EARLY THURSDAY WITH THE COOLER
H7 AIR...BREAKS IN THE LOW CLOUDS/FOG AND GENERALLY LIGHT UPSLOPE
WINDS...ALTHOUGH BY AFTERNOON...CU WILL BE HI BASED IN NATURE AND
ALONG H7 BOUNDARY.
.GLD...NONE.
VOJTESAKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 51 min |
| Aug 11, 11:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 3 hr |
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.