Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1998, 8:01 PM CDT for Decatur County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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 10, 1998, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 8:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 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 01:05 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 10, 8:05 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Lyle, KS | Also, nickel to quarter size hail reported 3 NE of Lyle at 1909 CST. |
| Jun 10, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Oberlin, 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 00:00Z, 1.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 336 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 110102 RRA TORGLD KSC039-110135- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 701 PM MDT (801 PM CDT) WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 835 PM CDT (735 PM MDT) * AT 759 PM CDT... GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF OBERLIN OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORCATUR MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORCATUR AROUND 810 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! MATHEWSON/MJV
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 10, 4:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 4:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION FOR TYPOS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 329 PM MDT (429 PM CDT) WED JUN 10 1998 ...FORECAST PROBLEMS WILL BE CHANCE OF PCPN TONIGHT AND TEMPS THRU PD... A COMPLICATED FCST MADE MORE MESSY BY INDIVIDUAL MODELS NOT CATCHING DETAILS IN DIFFERENT AREAS. BASED ON INITIAL ANALYSIS...CURRENT TRENDS ON SATL...SFC...AND PROFILER WINDS...AND PREV PERFORMANCE...AM GOING TO BLEND THE MODELS. ETA IS DOING BETTER WITH LWR LEVELS. HWVR...NGM/AVN ARE DOING MUCH BETTER WITH MSTR/PCPN ALONG WITH FEATURES FROM 700 MB TO JET LEVEL. ALL MODELS ARE TOO DRY... ESPECIALLY NR THE SFC...WITH ETA DRIEST WITH AVN IN THE MIDDLE. BASED ON DPS AND COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF SUBTROPICAL MSTR COMING IN ON SATL...LIKE THE NGM THERE. VERY STRONG UPR SYSTEM MOVG OUT OF DESERT SW PER SATL. ALSO 200 MB JET AND AGEO FORCG...AND HIGH LAPSE RATES ARND THRU THE NIGHT. SFC ANAL SHOWS SOME KIND OF LOW LVL BOUNDERY DRAPED EAST TO WEST JUST SOUTH OF OUR CWA. AVN/NGM HANDLE THE UPR SYSTEM BEST. BASED ON ALL FACTORS...BEST FRCG/VORT AND CHC OF PCPN LOOK TO BE OVR SRN AND ERN CWA AND WL PUT HIGHEST POPS THERE. WL TAPER OFF 30 TO 40 PERCENT IN CNTRL AND NW LOCATIONS. COULD BE SOME LINGERING PCPN IN ERN CWA AND WL KEEP CHC IN THERE THROUGH THE DAY. AM NOT COMFORTABLE WITH MODELS HANDLING S/WS IN THIS FLOW ALOFT. EVEN THOUGH SHOULD DRY OUT BEHIND TONIGHTS FEATURE...LOOKS TO BE ENUF INSTABILITY...MSTR...AND LIFT TO KEEP A SLIGHT CHC IN 2ND AND 3RD PD. 850 TEMPS LOOK TO STAY NRLY THE SAME THRU PD. WL HAVE ENOUGH DYNAMICS ARND TO KEEP SOME CLDS PLUS COULD HAVE SOME WET GRND IN SRN AND ERN AREAS. WINDS GO TO NEUTRAL TO UPSLOPE IN 3RD AND 4TH PDS. BASED ON ALL THIS...WL TEND TO GO CLOSE TO NGM MOS WITH GOING SLIGHTLY BLO 3RD AND 4TH PDS. .GLD...NONE. BULLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 65 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.