Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 1998, 10:10 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1998, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:13 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, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 734 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
533
WFUS1 KICT 150311 RRA
TORICT
KSC035-150415-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1010 PM CDT TUE APR 14 1998
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
COWLEY COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
SIVERDALE
MAPLE CITY
* AT AT 1010 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
ARKANSAS CITY MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
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.
OGRENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 63 min |
| Apr 14, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 65 min |
| Apr 14, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 63 min |
| Apr 14, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 35 min |
| Apr 14, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 61 min |
| Apr 14, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 63 min |
| Apr 14, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 48 min |
| Apr 14, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 63 min |
| Apr 14, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 11:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 61 min |
| Apr 14, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.