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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Goodland, KS

June 29, 1998Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1998, 5:59 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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 29, 1998, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1998, 6:35 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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 29, 6:15 PM CDT	Hail 1	Monument, KS	Also, tree limbs down.
Jun 29, 6:20 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Russell Spgs, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 364 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -565 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2343 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 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.

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 292259 RRA
TORGLD
KSC109-292335-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
459 PM MDT (559 PM CDT) MON JUN 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 635 PM CDT (535 PM MDT)

* AT 558 PM CDT... GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 22 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEOTI OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF RUSSELL
  SPRINGS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT...
  RURAL RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

MENTZER

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 29, 3:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 3:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
242 PM MDT (342 PM CDT) MON JUN 29 1998

...PLENTY OF CHALLENGES WITH T-STORM CHANCES ESPECIALLY TONIGHT...

TROPICAL CONNECTION INTO REGION VISIBLE ON SATELLITE THIS AFTN. VERY
BOUYANT AIRMASS WITH SFC DEWPOINTS IN 60S BACK INTO FAR E COLORADO.
MODELS NOT QUITE AS WARM WITH TEMPS ALOFT COMPARED TO PREVIOUS RUNS
AND CAP ERODING PER ADAP. MODELS KEEP UPPER LVL JET OVER N NEBRASKA
INTO IOWA WITH NE PARTS OF GLD CWA FALLING UNDER FAVORABLE RR
QUADRANT THIS EVE. THETA-E RIDGE FCST TO EXTEND BACK INTO NW KANSAS
TIL 06Z SO STORMS COULD FIRE ALONG N AXIS WHERE CAPES CURRENTLY
RUNNING 3000-4500 J/KG. AS A MATTER OF FACT...SPC JUST ISSUED WATCH
FOR THIS AREA.

MODELS TAKE SFC BOUNDARY AND HIEST MSTR VALUES E OF CWA. HOWEVER...
MID LVL FRONT SLIDES THRU CWA WITH Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE IN THE
700/500MB LAYER SPCLY OVER E. WL KEEP SMALL MENTION OF TSTMS
OVERNIGHT IN E ZONES BUT END ANY MENTION OUT W AS H7 RIDGE BUILDS AND
JET EXITS REGION. WITH HI DEWPOINTS AND ELY SFC WINDS...CANNOT RULE
OUT AREAS OF FOG LATER TONIGHT.

ETA/NGM DIFFER WRT TO STATE OF ATMOSPHERE TUESDAY AFTN/EVE. HINT OF A
SHORTWAVE IN WNW FLOW ALOFT BY TUESDAY EVE. NGM MUCH MORE UNSTABLE
AND MOIST OVER CWA. WITH ELY MOIST LOW LVL FLOW AND COOLER TEMPS
ALOFT...CANNOT RULE OUT TSTMS. HOWEVER...TIMING LOOKS TO BE CLOSER
TO 3RD PERIOD EVENT. WL INCLUDE LOW POPS ACROSS NW HALF TUE AFTN...
AND WL LET NEXT 2 SHIFTS TAKE A CLOSER LOOK FOR TUESDAY EVE/NGT.

REGARDLESS...LOOKS TO BE COOLER TUESDAY ACROSS FA THEN WAA PATTERN
BACK FOR WEDNESDAY. BARRING LOTS OF FOG OR STRATUS WEDNESDAY
MORNING...TEMPS SHOULD BE A BIT WARMER FOR WED. WL STAY CLOSE TO
MOS GUIDANCE TEMPS IN 1ST AND 3RD PERIODS.

.GLD...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT) FOR NEZ081 AND
       KSZ003>004-016.

KPL

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 3:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

KSZ003-004-016-NEZ081-300340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
242 PM MDT (342 PM CDT) MON JUN 29 1998

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WATCH FOR AREAS MAINLY EAST OF A LINE FROM MCCOOK TO OBERLIN TO HILL
CITY UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT).

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
CONDITIONS ARE ALSO FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES. 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.

SKIPPER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	36 min
Jun 29, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	33 min
Jun 29, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	33 min
Jun 29, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	62 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.