Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1998, 9:04 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1998, 9:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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, 9:10 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Tyro, 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 895 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 250204 RRA TORICT KSC125-250250- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 904 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA KS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 950 PM CDT * AT 9 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF COFFEYVILLE...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT... DEARING COFFEYVILLE IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWELL OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWElST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY. DARMOFAL
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, 8:28 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, 9:28 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.