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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS

April 14, 1998Decatur County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 1998, 5:02 PM CDT for Decatur County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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
Apr 14, 1998, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired
Apr 14, 1998, 5:35 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Decatur County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 14, 5:05 PM CDTTornado F1Oberlin, KSBriief tornado. Individual drove through the tornado. Side view mirrors and windshield wipers were ripped from vehicle.
Apr 14, 5:26 PM CDTHail 0.75Lyle, 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1998-04-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1998-04-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
738 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
577 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

768 
WFUS1 KGLD 142201 RRA
TORGLD
KSC039-142235-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
402 PM MDT (502 PM CDT) TUE APR 14 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 535 PM CDT

* AT 459 PM CDT... GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9
  MILES NORTHEAST OF OBERLIN. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORCATUR           AROUND 505 PM CDT
  NORCATUR                                AROUND 515 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

MENTZER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 14, 4:16 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur49 min
Apr 14, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton61 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.