Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 5:37 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min. 7 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 13, 1998, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 6:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumner County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:50 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Corbin, KS | |
| Jun 13, 5:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Corbin, KS | |
| Jun 13, 6:08 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Wellington, KS | Wind-driven golfball-sized hail smashed windows, dented siding and caused widespread roof damage. |
| Jun 13, 6:08 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Wellington, KS | |
| Jun 13, 6:09 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Caldwell, KS | |
| Jun 13, 6:09 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Caldwell, KS | Winds of 70 mph combined with 0.75 inch hail to inflict widespread damage to trees, pwoer lines, homes, and blew roofs off barns, sheds and outbuildings. |
| Jun 13, 6:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Wellington, KS | Hail smashed windows to numerous cars and buildings. |
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 13, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 420 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 132237 RRA TORICT KSC191-132310- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 537 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA KS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 610 PM CDT * AT AT 535 PM CDT ...A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO AT 50TH AND OLIVER OR 4 MILES SOUTH OF BELLE PLAINE...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BELLE PLAINE IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF NO STRUCTURE ISN NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. DAVIS &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno, Sedgwick | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Marion | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chase | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk | 58 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.