Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 1998, 11:50 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min. 2 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
- Apr 14, 1998, 11:50 PM CDT (04:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1998, 12:55 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 12:25 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Columbus, KS | Hail, up to golf ball size, fell in the Columbus area accumulating to a depth of two inches. There was extensive car and roof damage, especially in the north part of town. Numerous reports of funnel clouds were received in the area, but no tornado touchdown |
| Apr 15, 12:50 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Lawton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 11:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 150450 RRA TORSGF KSC021-150555- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1150 PM CDT TUE APR 14 1998 * TORNADO WARNING FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY - SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 1255 AM CDT * SOME AREAS AFFECTED NEAR HALLOWELL BY 1205 AM NEAR COLUMBUS AND WEST MINERAL BY 1220 AM NEAR ROSELAND AND WEIR BY 1230 AM * AT 1150 PM SPRINGFIELD DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 30 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS OR 13 MILES OF OSWEGO IN LABETTE COUNTY KANSAS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN CHEROKEE COUNTY ARE IN THE PROJECTED PATH OF A DEVELOPING TORNADO AND SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MOVE INSIDE A STORM CELLAR... A BASEMENT...OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOUSE. GORDON/TAGGART
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 65 min |
| Apr 15, 1:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 62 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.