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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Wichita, KS

June 13, 1998Elk County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 6:52 PM CDT for Elk County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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 13, 1998, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1998, 7:50 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County 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 13, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KICT 132352 RRA
TORICT
KSC049-140050-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
652 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA KS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ELK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 750 PM CDT
 
* AT AT 648 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 30 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF ARKANSAS CITY...OR JUST WEST OF GRENOLA...MOVING TO THE EAST
  AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GRENOLA
  MOLINE
  ELK FALLS
  LONGTON

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES IN COWLEY COUNTY.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.

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, 6:27 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

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.