Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1998, 5:42 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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 20, 1998, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 1998, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 1511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 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 20, 4:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 4:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 303 PM MDT (403 PM CDT) THU AUG 20 1998 BASED ON CURRENT TRENDS OF TSRA AS SEEN ON SATL AND GLD WSR-88D... NE VORT MAX IS KICKING UP MORE ACTIVITY FURTHER WEST THAN I EXPECTED. SO HAVE UPPED TO CHC POPS IN EXTREME SW NE CNTYS AND EXTREME NW KS CNTYS THAT PREVIOUSLY ONLY HAD SLGHT CHC . .GLD...NONE. BULLER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 20, 12:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 64 min |
| Aug 20, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 62 min |
| Aug 19, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 65 min |
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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.