Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 11, 1998, 7:05 PM CDT for Barton County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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
- May 11, 1998, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1998, 8:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barton County, KS, Russell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 3561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
129 WFUS1 KICT 120006 TORICT KSC009-167-120105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 705 PM CDT MON MAY 11 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA KS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS EASTERN RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 805 PM CDT THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN BARTON COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM. * AT 659 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 15 MILES SOUTHEAST RUSSELL OR NEAR BEAVER...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO CROSS SOUTHEASTERN RUSSELL COUNTY AND NORTHEASTERN BARTON COUNTY. 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 IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. MARIEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 60 min |
| May 11, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 63 min |
| May 11, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 62 min |
| May 11, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 63 min |
| May 11, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 48 min |
| May 11, 9:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 64 min |
| May 11, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 46 min |
| May 11, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 60 min |
| May 11, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 63 min |
| May 11, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 47 min |
| May 12, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 60 min |
| May 12, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 59 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.