Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998

Tornado Warning 27, NWS Wichita, KS

June 8, 1998Harvey County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1998, 5:38 PM CDT for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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
Jun 8, 1998, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1998, 6:40 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Harvey County, KS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 8, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 1998-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 146 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 1998-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

552 
WFUS1 KICT 082239 RRA
TORICT
KSC079-082340-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
538 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 640 PM CDT
 
* AT 5:37 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF HESSTON OR 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  WICHITA....MOVING TO THE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH..

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HESSTON
  WALTON

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.

ELDER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 2:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Russell59 min
Jun 8, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper65 min
Jun 8, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth64 min
Jun 8, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln48 min
Jun 8, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno63 min
Jun 8, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSumner62 min
Jun 8, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLincoln40 min
Jun 8, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice48 min
Jun 8, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson61 min
Jun 8, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarvey60 min
Jun 8, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley64 min
Jun 8, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner60 min
Jun 8, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno44 min
Jun 8, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson60 min
Jun 8, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler64 min
Jun 8, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion61 min
Jun 8, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChautauqua, Elk61 min
Jun 8, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley65 min
Jun 8, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler60 min
Jun 8, 6:29 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChase61 min
Jun 8, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningICTElk49 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.