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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Wichita, KS

June 20, 1998Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1998, 8:49 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 1998, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1998, 9:35 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Butler County, KS

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 20, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 4942 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1090 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 337 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 629 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 13.7
Supercell composite: 52.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 20, 3:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 3:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	59 min
Jun 20, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	43 min
Jun 20, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	43 min
Jun 20, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	54 min
Jun 20, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Woodson	60 min
Jun 20, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	34 min
Jun 21, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	42 min
Jun 21, 4:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson	64 min
Jun 21, 4:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	64 min
Jun 21, 5:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Marion	63 min
Jun 21, 5:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	63 min
Jun 21, 5:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	65 min
Jun 21, 6:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	60 min
Jun 21, 6:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	62 min
Jun 21, 6:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	64 min
Jun 21, 6:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	60 min
Jun 21, 7:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1998 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.