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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Wichita, KS

June 19, 1998Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 1998, 7:32 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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 19, 1998, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1998, 8:05 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Sumner County, KS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 19, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1998-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 162 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1998-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3176 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

724 
WFUS1 KICT 200034 RRA
TORICT
KSC191-200105-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
732 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA KS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 805 PM CDT
 
* AT 730 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST
  OF OXFORD OR 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARKANSAS CITY...MOVING TO THE
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT...
  OXFORD

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A STAIRWELL OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF
NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS
A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS
TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

MARIEN
 

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner60 min
Jun 19, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler58 min
Jun 19, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley60 min
Jun 19, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood60 min
Jun 19, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick64 min
Jun 19, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler61 min
Jun 19, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWoodson38 min
Jun 19, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase, Marion62 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes in 1998

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.