Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1998, 8:28 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1998, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Arkansas City, KS | |
| May 24, 9:29 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Maple City, 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 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
047 WFUS1 KICT 250128 RRA TORICT KSC035-250230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 828 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA KS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 825 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARKANSAS CITY...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MAPLE CITY BY 900 PM IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. ES
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, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 45 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, 8:37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.