Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 1998, 4:35 PM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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
- Apr 14, 1998, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1998, 5:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenwood County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen, Woodson | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 35 min |
| Apr 14, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 63 min |
| Apr 14, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Montgomery | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 63 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes 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.