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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Wichita, KS

June 21, 1998Butler County, Marion County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1998, 5:02 AM CDT for Butler County, Marion County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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, 5:02 AM CDT (10:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1998, 6:05 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Butler County, KS, Marion County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 21, 5:24 AM CDT	Hail 1.75	De Graff, 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 21, 3:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 3:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
300 AM CDT SUN JUN 21 1998

SHORT TERM:
TSTMS FIRED ALG STNRY FNT XTNDG FM NW MO=>SE KS=>ACRS NRN OK=>NRN TX
PNHDL @ 05Z. FNT TO RMN STNRY THRUT 1ST PD & W/ PRSTNT CNVG ALG FNTL
BNDRY & ABNDT MSTR TO PLAY W/ TSTMS TO PRST INTO MRNG ACRS SC & SE
SXNS. PER FNTL PSNG W/ EMPLOY AN UNORTHODOX ZN CONFIGN BRKG OFF OK
BDR COUNTIES ACRS BOTH SC & SE AND 2ND TIER SE KS COUNTIES (EK..WL &
NO) INTO ONE ZN. AS SUCH HIGHEST POPS TO BE FOUND HERE (ABT 40-60%).
IN ALL PROBABILITY WL PUT SE SXN @ HIGHER END OF POP SPECTRUM WHERE
MSTR GTR. W/ SLO MVMT TSTMS TO PRODUCE +SHRA W/ COPIOUS RAINFALLS A
GOOD BET @ SOME LOCALES. WL EMPLOY SUCH WORDING IN C & SC ZNS. FFGS
RUNNING HIGH SO WL NOT ISSUE FFA @ THIS JUNCTURE. FNTS PRESENCE TO
MAKE TEMP FCSTG INTERESTING. YDA THE MERCURY SOARED TO NR 110F AT
ABT 5 LOCATIONS ACRS SC KS (MY SIDEKICK ON THE MESO SIDE ATTRIBUTES
THIS TO A HEAT BURST THAT JUST HAPPENED TO LAST ALL AFTERNOON. I
AGREE). GUID MAXS ARE FRLY CLOSE & WONT DEV FROM THEM.

LONG TERM:
STNRY FNT RMNG DRAPED ALG/NR KS/OK BDR TO ALLOW FOR INCRD LWR-LVL
MSTR POOLING THAT WL RCH FRTHR N INTO C SXN. W/ STNRY FNT XTNDG NW
INTO HI PLNS CNVG TO INCR W OF CWA LTR THIS AFTN & H7-H5 SHRTWV VEN-
TURING INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD INDUCING INCRD UVM TSTMS TO DVLP ACRS C
SXN AS WELL. HENCE 40% POP WARRANTED THIS SXN TNGT W/ 40-60& CONTD
ACRS SC & SE SXNS. LTL DIFF IN GUID MINS & GENLY FLWD. NGM TRIES TO
LIFT FNT SLOLY N AS WRMFNT TAKING BNDRY TO KS/NEBRASKA BDR BY TMW
EVE W/ ETA FAR MORE HESITENT..STRADLLING FNTL BDNRY NR KS/OK BDR.
GIVEN NRLY ZONAL FLO H7 & ABV AM BIASING TWD ETAS MORE SRLY PSNG OF
FNTL BNDRY TMW. HENCE AM PICTURING INCRD OVR-RUNNING PCPN & TSTMS
CWA-WIDE TMW....SPCLY C SXN. PER COORD W/ TOP THIS MATCHES WELL W/
THEIR GAMEPLAN. PER ABV RSNS AM BIASING TWD MORE CONSERVATIVE FAN
SOLN FOR TMWS MAXS ACRS THE BOARD.
ES

FCSTID = 4
ICT   90  70  94  71 /  40  40  40  10
HUT   90  69  93  71 /  40  40  40  10
EWK   90  70  93  71 /  40  40  40  10
EQA   90  70  93  70 /  40  40  40  10
WLD   91  73  94  70 /  40  60  40  30
RSL   89  67  88  71 /  30  40  40  40
GBD   89  67  89  71 /  30  40  40  40
SLN   89  67  89  71 /  30  40  40  40
MPR   89  67  89  71 /  30  40  40  40
CFV   91  73  94  70 /  40  60  40  30
CNU   91  72  93  70 /  40  60  40  30
K88   90  70  92  70 /  40  40  40  10

.ICT...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 11:24 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 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, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	46 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, 5:22 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.