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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Wichita, KS

June 30, 1998Woodson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1998, 4:26 AM CDT for Woodson 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 30, 1998, 4:26 AM CDT (09:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1998, 5:25 AM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Woodson County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 2102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2166 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 20.8

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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 30, 2:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 2:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 12:06 AM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before

KSZ048>053-300530-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1206 AM CDT TUE JUN 30 1998

...TORNADO WATCH 708 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
KANSAS...

TORNADO WATCH 708 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...

IN CENTRAL KANSAS

ELLSWORTH  SALINE  RICE  MCPHERSON  CHASE  MARION

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA...AS A RESULT THE
THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED. TORNADO WATCH 708
REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 2
AM CDT.

PETERSEN

Local storm report, Jun 30, 1:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
100 AM CDT TUE JUN 30 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1048 PM    IOLA                      KS   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   ALLEN                          TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN

1050 PM    MORAN                     KS   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/98   ALLEN

1059 PM    VIRGIL                    KS   1 INCH HAIL
06/29/98   GREENWOOD

1103 PM    CHANUTE                   KS   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   NEOSHO                         TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN

1103 PM    ERIE                      KS   60-70 MPH TSTM GUSTS
06/29/98   NEOSHO                         ROOF BLOWN OFF BUILDING

1115 PM    VIRGIL                    KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/29/98   GREENWOOD

MARIEN

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 2:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

KSZ067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-300745-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
210 AM CDT TUE JUN 30 1998

...TORNADO WATCH 708 HAS EXPIRED SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
KANSAS...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

RENO      KINGMAN       HARPER       HARVEY        SEDGWICK
SUMNER    BUTLER        COWLEY

IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

GREENWOOD   ELK         CHAUTAUQUA  WOODSON        WILSON
MONTGOMERY  ALLEN       NEOSHO      LABETTE

ALTHOUGH THERE ARE STORMS STILL IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS...THEY
SHOULD COME TO AN END SHORTLY.  THEREFORE THE TORNADO WATCH WILL NOT
BE EXTENDED.

OGREN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	66 min
Jun 29, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	55 min
Jun 29, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	48 min
Jun 29, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	73 min
Jun 30, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	62 min
Jun 30, 2:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	59 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.