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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Wichita, KS

September 27, 1998Kingman County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 27, 1998, 7:44 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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: Sep 27, 1998, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired: Sep 27, 1998, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Kingman County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 646 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

798 
WUUS1 KICT 280045 RRA
SVRICT
KSC095-280115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
744 PM CDT SUN SEP 27 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
     NORTHEAST KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 744 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF MT VERNON...OR ABOUT 20 
  MILES SOUTH OF HUTCHINSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES PER 
  HOUR.  DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH BLOWING FROM THIS STORM WILL 
  SPREAD ACROSS NORTHEAST KINGMAN COUNTY.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
     MURDOCK
     WATERLOO
     MT VERNON

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN WICHITA.

WOLF

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 Sep 27, 3:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 27, 3:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
341 PM CDT SUN SEP 27 1998

SHORT TERM:
EARLY AFTN SFC MAP SHOWS FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM THE EXTREME
NE CORNER OF THE TX PANHADLE UP TO NR GBD AND EAST TO JUST NORTH OF
EMP AND INTO CENTRAL MO.  SHRA/TSRA WERE DEVELOPING NORTH OF THE
FRONT IN AN AREA OF ISENTROPIC LIFT AND UNDER THE RR OF UPPER LEVEL
JET.  ALTHOUGH MODELS ARE NOT HANDLING THE POSITIONING OF THE FRONT
WELL...THEY ARE ALL HINTING AT WASHING THE FRONT OUT AS HURRICANE
GEORGES PUSHES ONSHORE AND THE SFC HIGH MOVES INTO IL.  WITHOUT THE
CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT AS A SOURCE OF LIFT...CHC OF PRECIP
SEEMS TO BE SLIPPING AWAY FOR SC/SE KS TONIGHT.  MAX HEATING MAY GET
THINGS GOING IN SC KS...BUT ATTM IT APPEARS A DRY FCST IS IN STORE
FOR TONIGHT.  AS FOR CENTRAL KS WILL KEEP SOME SMALL POPS GOING...
850MB FLOW RETURNS SOUTHWESTERLY OVERNIGHT WHICH MAY BE ENOUGH LIFT
TO GET SOMETHING GOING AGAIN TONIGHT.

LONG TERM:
MONDAY S/SE FLOW SHOULD RETURN TO ALL OF THE CWA ALLOWING TEMPS TO
ONCE AGAIN CLIMB BACK INTO THE UPPER 80S TO LOWER 90S. MONDAY NIGHT
STRONG WAA RETURNS ACROSS WRN KS WITH LLJ NOSING INTO CENTRAL KS...
SO WILL GO WITH A CHC OF TSRA MONDAY NIGHT MAINLY ACROSS CENTRAL
KS.  NEXT FRONTAL BOUNDARY SLIDES INTO THE AREA ON TUE...APPEARS IT
WILL GET HUNG UP ACROSS NEB KEEPING US IN THE WARM SECTOR AT LEAST
THRU THU.  CUT OFF LOW WHICH HAS BEEN SPINNING OUT WEST FINALLY
BEGINS APPROACHING ON WED...SO WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN THE VCNTY
AND AN UPPER LOW MOVING OVERHEAD...WILL KEEP A CHC OF PRECIP GOING
THROUGH THE LAST HALF OF THE WEEK.

NOONAN

FCSTID = 15
ICT   67  90  66  93 /  10   0  10  10
HUT   66  89  66  92 /  10   0  20  10
EWK   65  89  66  92 /  10   0  10  10
EQA   67  90  66  93 /  10   0  10  10
WLD   70  91  67  93 /  10   0  10  10
RSL   62  87  65  90 /  30  10  30  10
GBD   63  88  66  91 /  30  10  30  10
SLN   63  87  65  980 /  30  10  30  10
MPR   64  88  66  91 /  20  10  20  10
CFV   70  89  67  88 /  10   0   0  10
CNU   68  88  66  88 /  10   0   0  10
K88   67  86  66  88 /  10   0   0  10

.ICT...NONE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 27, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	60 min
Sep 27, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	72 min
Sep 27, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	64 min
Sep 27, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	54 min
Sep 27, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.