Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1998, 1:05 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 75 min. 1 report 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 24, 1998, 1:05 PM CDT (18:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1998, 2:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 75 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 18:03 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 24, 1:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Colby, 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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 May 24, 6:26 AM CDT, 6 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 6:26 AM CDT, 6 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 526 AM MDT (626 AM CDT) SUN MAY 24 1998 MID LVL MOISTURE NOT DISSIPATING AS EXPECTED AS COOL POOL FROM NRN PLAINS H5 INTERACTS WITH VORT LOBE EXTENDING FROM WAVE IN UTAH KEEP MID LVL CLOUDS GOING WITH SOME ISOLATED...HIGH-BASED SHOWERS OVER THE NW ZNS. UPDATED MAINLY TO REMOVE MOSTLY SUNNY EARLY MENTION AS THIS WONT BE THE CASE. REST OF FCST TO REMAIN UNTOUCHED AS MAIN H5 ENTERS WRN FA BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. .GLD...NONE MARTELLO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 24, 10:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-250600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 936 AM MDT (1036 AM CDT) SUN MAY 24 1998 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES CHEYENNE CO CHEYENNE KS DECATUR KS DUNDY NE GOVE KS GRAHAM KS GREELEY KS HITCHCOCK NE KIT CARSON CO LOGAN KS NORTON KS RAWLINS KS RED WILLOW NE SHERIDAN KS SHERMAN KS THOMAS KS WALLACE KS WICHITA KS YUMA CO SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. SYNOPSIS: LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP AND STRENGTHEN NEAR THE TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON...PROVIDING UPSLOPE SOUTHEAST WINDS AND SLOWLY INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. AN UPPER LEVEL WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE OUT OF WESTERN COLORADO INTO THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS OF COLORADO AND WESTERN KANSAS. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM AKRON TO ST. FRANCIS TO QUINTER WHERE HIGHER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND GREATER INSTABILITY EXISTS. THE PRIMARY THREAT IS FOR LARGE HAIL...HOWEVER A FEW TORNADOES COULD DEVELOP...PRIMARILY ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 40. THEDE
Special weather statement, May 24, 11:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-250600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1048 AM MDT (1148 AM CDT) SUN MAY 24 1998 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES CHEYENNE CO CHEYENNE KS DECATUR KS DUNDY NE GOVE KS GRAHAM KS GREELEY KS HITCHCOCK NE KIT CARSON CO LOGAN KS NORTON KS RAWLINS KS RED WILLOW NE SHERIDAN KS SHERMAN KS THOMAS KS WALLACE KS WICHITA KS YUMA CO SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED SOUTH OF A LINE FROM AKRON TO ATWOOD TO HILL CITY. SYNOPSIS... LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP AND STRENGTHEN NEAR THE TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON...PROVIDING UPSLOPE SOUTHEAST WINDS AND SLOWLY INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. AN UPPER LEVEL WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE OUT OF WESTERN COLORADO INTO THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING HAVE ALREADY PRODUCED HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS ALONG WITH ONE INCH OF RAIN IN 30 MINUTES. STRONGER STORMS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AS SUNSHINE WARMS THE AIR AT LOWER LEVELS THE PRIMARY THREAT IS FOR LARGE HAIL...HOWEVER A FEW TORNADOES COULD DEVELOP...PRIMARILY ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 40. && THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES CHEYENNE CO CHEYENNE KS DECATUR KS DUNDY NE GOVE KS GRAHAM KS GREELEY KS HITCHCOCK NE KIT CARSON CO LOGAN KS NORTON KS RAWLINS KS RED WILLOW NE SHERIDAN KS SHERMAN KS THOMAS KS WALLACE KS WICHITA KS YUMA CO THEDE/ENTWISTLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 48 min |
| May 24, 11:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 66 min |
| May 24, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 34 min |
| May 24, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 76 min |
| May 24, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 50 min |
| May 24, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 47 min |
| May 24, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 61 min |
| May 24, 11:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 32 min |
| May 24, 11:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 32 min |
| May 24, 12:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 62 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.