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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1998, 5:44 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Elk County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1998, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Elk County, KS
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, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 082244 RRA TORICT KSC019-049-082345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 544 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA KS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS ELK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 542 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO JUST SOUTH OF GRANOLA...OR 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARKANSAS CITY...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ALONG THE ELK-CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY BORDER. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND VERY LARGE HAIL. * THE POSSIBLE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... GRANOLA MOLINE ELK FALLS LONGTON 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. WOLF
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, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey | 60 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, 5:45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.