Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1998, 2:11 AM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 3, 1998, 2:11 AM MDT (08:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 3:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:25 AM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Ruleton, KS | Thunderstorm winds estimated at least 70 mph flipped over a full irrigation rig, knocked over 16 power poles, broke branches, and damaged outdoor play equipment, sheds, a roof, and grain bins. |
| Jun 3, 2:25 AM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Goodland Arpt, KS | Also, wind to 63 mph at Goodland CATV (2 south of Goodland) |
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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 2185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
296 WUUS1 KGLD 030812 RRA SVRGLD KSC181-030900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 211 AM MDT WED JUN 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 300 AM MDT * AT 209 AM MDT... GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF BURLINGTON MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF RULETON AROUND 220 AM MDT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND AROUND 230 AM MDT GOODLAND AROUND 235 AM MDT EDSON AROUND 245 AM MDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS THEDE
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 Jun 2, 2:09 PM MDT, 12 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:09 PM MDT, 12 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 209 PM MDT (309 PM CDT) TUE JUN 2 1998 ...WHAT TO DO WITH EARLY SPRING WX IN JUNE...IS THE CHALLENGE THIS PACKAGE... AT 18Z...TEMPS STILL IN THE 40S ACROSS ERN MT/ND AND THE NW HALF OF SD. DECENT 3 HRLY PRESSURE RISES...ESPECIALLY AT RAPID CITY. SFC WINDS STILL NNWLY ABOVE 3500FT MSL...L/V ELSEWHERE. PRE-FRONTAL SURGE ALREADY MOVING INTO NWRNMOST CWA AS TEMPS IN COZ90 APPEAR TO BE LEVELING OFF IN FULL SUN. BELIEVE THE ETA WILL GIVE THIS PKG THE BEST INDICATOR OF FUTURE WEATHER. CHATTED WITH PUB EARLY ON THIS MRNG AND THEY FELT A WNWLY BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW IN SERN CO AS NGM DEPICTS 18 HRS TO 24 HRS OUT TO THE KS BORDER IS QUESTIONABLE. KNOWING THIS BIT HELPS HERE...BECAUSE AS AIR MASS FIGURES OUT WHERE IT IT WANTS TO SETTLE ALONG THE PALMER DIVIDE AND POST FRONTAL MID LEVEL MOISTURE...LAGGING SOME NOW...CATCHES UP ON WEDNESDAY. MY FCST PROBLEM REALLY WAS... TO DECIDE IF -DZ RATHER THAN -RA WED AFTN-NITE/THURS MRNG WITH DYNAMICS LACKING. HOWEVER...WITH DECENT ZONAL FLOW AND WARM AIR ALOFT OVERRUNNING AND TRYING TO ERODE THE SHALLOW LAYER WEDNESDAY...ANY SUN OUT WEST SHOULD CREATE -SHRA WITH LOW TOPS AT/NR 18K FT AND EWD MOVING TRAJECTORIES TO HELP SATURATE THE ENTIRE H85/H7 LEVEL ALONG KS/CO BORDER. A LOWERING BY ANOTHER 10 TO 15 METERS IN THE ETA...IE H85/H7 THCKNS BETWEEN 1615 AND 1595M DID DEPART FROM THE NGM AT 36 HOUR POINT...WHICH SHOWS 1634 TO 1610 AT HLC AND GLD DURING THE DAY RESPECTIVELY. THIS TOLD ME THAT THE NGM DOES NOT THINK THE PROSPECTS OF COLD AND MOIST AIR ABOVE 3500 FT MSL CAN LAST BECAUSE IT THINKS THE FRONT RANGE IS LOCATED AT LIC. SO WENT FOR AN INCRGLY HIER CHC FOR POPS THRU 12Z TO 48 HR POINT ALONG KS/CO BORDER. IN NERN HALF OF ZONES...BEST MOISTURE WILL REMAIN TRAPPED BETWEEN H7/H85 WITH ONLY STG NELY H85 FLOW TO SFC TO SHAKE OUT PCPN IN STG SHEAR ZONE OF WSWLYS BETWEEN H85 AND H5. AS BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW SUBSIDES ON WEDNESDAY OUT EAST... JUST CLOUDS BUT LTL IF ANY RAIN ARE MY THOUGHTS ANYWAY. DEFINITELY COOL THOUGH OUT EAST WITH H85 TEMPS PROGGED AT OR BELOW 7C MOST OF THIS EVENT. .GLD...NONE VOJTESAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 2:48 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 52 min |
| Jun 3, 3:39 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.