Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 43, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 1998, 7:13 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 4 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
- Sep 29, 1998, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hoisington, KS | Occurred just south of Hoisington. |
| Sep 29, 7:31 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Great Bend, KS | |
| Sep 29, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hoisington, KS | |
| Sep 29, 7:53 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Great Bend, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3089 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
573 WFUS1 KICT 300014 RRA TORICT KSC009-300045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 713 PM CDT TUE SEP 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA KS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 710 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR OLMITZ...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT BEND...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT AREAS NEAR... OLMITZ HOISINGTON REDWING 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. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BARTON COUNTY. DARMOFAL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 45 min |
| Sep 29, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 33 min |
| Sep 29, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 48 min |
| Sep 29, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 49 min |
| Sep 29, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 58 min |
| Sep 29, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson, Woodson | 47 min |
| Sep 29, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 48 min |
| Sep 29, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 48 min |
| Sep 29, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Rice | 63 min |
| Sep 30, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 51 min |
| Sep 30, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 51 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.