Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 6:27 PM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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 13, 1998, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenwood County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:03 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Eureka, KS |
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 |
| Jun 13, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 1979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 132327 RRA TORICT KSC073-140030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 627 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA KS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GREENWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT AT 625 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST SOUTHEAST OF CASSODAY OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF EL DORADO...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... REECE THRALL EUREKA GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DfEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS. 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, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 33 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, 6:36 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.