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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Wichita, KS

June 22, 1998Chase County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1998, 4:01 AM CDT for Chase County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 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 22, 1998, 4:01 AM CDT (09:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1998, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Chase 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 22, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 2050 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 973 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.0

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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 22, 3:50 AM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:50 AM CDT, 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 10:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

KSZ032-033-047>053-O67>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-220400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1033 PM CDT SUN JUN 21 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA IS ACTIVATING OUR
SKYWARN SPOTTER NETWORK.

A SKYWARN OPERATOR IS MONITORING AREA NETWORKS.

THE PRIMARY SKYWARN FREQUENCY IS 146.94 MHZ.

SECONDARY FREQUENCIES ARE ALSO BEING MONITORED ON 146.82 AND 145.13 MHZ.

URBAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	64 min
Jun 21, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	57 min
Jun 21, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	58 min
Jun 21, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	65 min
Jun 21, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	46 min
Jun 21, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	56 min
Jun 21, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	62 min
Jun 21, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Sedgwick	61 min
Jun 22, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	59 min
Jun 22, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	64 min
Jun 22, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	60 min
Jun 22, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	73 min
Jun 22, 2:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	48 min
Jun 22, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	74 min
Jun 22, 2:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	98 min
Jun 22, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	93 min
Jun 22, 3:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	61 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.