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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Wichita, KS

June 8, 1998Harvey County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1998, 4:40 PM CDT for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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: Jun 8, 1998, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1998, 5:40 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Harvey County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 8, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Burrton, KS	One farm sustained damage to three outbuildings while the residence sustained roof damage and had several windows blown out. A second farmstead sustained damage to it's roof, two barns and a metal shed.
Jun 8, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Hesston, 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
Jun 8, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 146 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -308 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KICT 082140 RRA
TORICT
KSC079-082240-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
440 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA KS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HARVEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 540 PM CDT
 
* AT AT 437 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 10 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON NEAR THE RENO/HARVEY COUNTY
  LINE....MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BURRTON
  HESSTON
  NEWTON

A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 2 MILES EAST OF BUHLER AS WELL
AS SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM.  ACT QUICKLY.
 IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE T:O 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.

NOONAN
 

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	59 min
Jun 8, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	65 min
Jun 8, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	64 min
Jun 8, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	48 min
Jun 8, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	63 min
Jun 8, 3:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	62 min
Jun 8, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	40 min
Jun 8, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	48 min
Jun 8, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	61 min
Jun 8, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley	64 min
Jun 8, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	60 min
Jun 8, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	44 min
Jun 8, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	60 min
Jun 8, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	64 min
Jun 8, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey	62 min
Jun 8, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	61 min
Jun 8, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	61 min
Jun 8, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley	65 min
Jun 8, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	60 min
Jun 8, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chase	61 min
Jun 8, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Elk	49 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.