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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Wichita, KS

June 8, 1998Chase County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1998, 6:29 PM CDT for Chase County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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: Jun 8, 1998, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1998, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Chase County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jun 8, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Wonsevu, KS	Outbuildings damaged.

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, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 713 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KICT 082329 RRA
TORICT
KSC017-090030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA KS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CHASE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
 
* AT 628 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO SOUTHWEST CORNER OF CHASE COUNTY...ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH
  OF EL DORADO...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE POSSIBLE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WONSEVU
  MATFIELD GREEN

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, 5:44 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, 6:41 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.