Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1998, 7:10 PM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- May 24, 1998, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1998, 7:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harper County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Waldron, KS | Power poles damaged 4 miles east of Waldron. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1643 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 250010 COR TORICT KSC077-250055- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 710 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA KS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HARPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 755 PM CDT * AT 708 PM CDT...A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER REPORTED A TORNAD 4 MILES EAST OF WALDRON...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANTHONY MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS NEAR RUNNYMEDE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF HARPER. * THE TORNADO IN SOUTHERN HARPER COUNTY IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SPRING BLUFF CITY THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. WOLF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 57 min |
| May 24, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 63 min |
| May 24, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 61 min |
| May 24, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| May 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 60 min |
| May 24, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 66 min |
| May 24, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 62 min |
| May 24, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Montgomery | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 67 min |
| May 24, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 63 min |
| May 24, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 61 min |
| May 24, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 49 min |
| May 24, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 46 min |
| May 24, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
Nearby
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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.