Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1998, 9:39 PM CDT for Logan County, Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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
- Jun 21, 1998, 9:39 PM CDT (02:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1998, 10:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Logan County, KS, Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 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 21, 10:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Winona, KS | Tree limbs in excess of 1 inch in diameter broken. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1376 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2094 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 220240 RRA SVRGLD KSC109-193-220340- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 839 PM MDT (939 PM CDT) SUN JUN 21 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 1040 PM CDT (940 PM MDT) AT 937 PM...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND TO 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL SPRINGS MOVING EAST AT 17 MPH. THE SEVERE STORMS WILL AFFECT... BREWSTER AROUND 10 PM CDT. LEVANT AROUND 1010 PM CDT. COLBY AROUND 1020 PM CDT. RUSSELL SPRINGS AROUND 1020 PM CDT. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! MARTELLO
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 21, 3:22 PM CDT, 6 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 3:22 PM CDT, 6 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...COORDINATION UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 222 PM MDT (322 PM CDT) SUN JUN 21 1998 ...SVR TSTMS AND LOCALIZED FLDNG TNGT ARE MN CONCERNS... ONLY CHANGE TO DRAFT ZONES WILL BE TO INCREASE THE RANGE OF HIGH TEMPS FOR NW KS COUNTIES TO INCLUDE LOWER TO MID 90S SO TO BLEND BETTER WITH DDCS COUNTIES. NO OTHER CHANGES ARE SLATED ATTM. .GLD...NONE VJN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 8:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
COZ090-220140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 708 PM MDT SUN JUN 21 1998 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR YUMA COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS OVER SOUTHEAST YUMA COUNTY. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND SHOULD BE OUT OF THE COUNTY BY 730 PM. AS A RESULT...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR YUMA COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 7 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL T.V AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES. MARTELLO
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 8:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
COZ090-220140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 708 PM MDT SUN JUN 21 1998 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR YUMA COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS OVER SOUTHEAST YUMA COUNTY. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND SHOULD BE OUT OF THE COUNTY BY 730 PM. AS A RESULT...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR YUMA COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 7 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL T.V AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES. MARTELLO
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 8:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
-COZ091-092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081- 220405- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 709 PM MDT (809 PM CDT) SUN JUN 21 1998 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM CDT (1 AM MDT) FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...ALL OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND ALL OF NORTHWEST KANSAS... CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 633 HAS BEEN POSTED FOR CHEYENNE AND KIT CARSON COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...ALL OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND ALL OF NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM MDT (2 AM CDT) MONDAY MORNING. SOME CITIES IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE... BURLINGTON...CHEYENNE WELLS...MCCOOK...TRENTON...GOODLAND...COLBY... OBERLIN...NORTON...HILL CITY...TRIBUNE AND LEOTI. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 633 REPLACES SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 631...WHICH COVERED MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. TURNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 65 min |
| Jun 21, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 33 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.