Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 367
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 18, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1998, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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.
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 50 min |
| May 18, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 62 min |
| May 18, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 33 min |
| May 18, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 31 min |
| May 18, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 48 min |
| May 18, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 44 min |
| May 18, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 32 min |
| May 18, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 46 min |
| May 18, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 47 min |
| May 18, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 49 min |
| May 18, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 49 min |
| May 18, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 35 min |
| May 18, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 60 min |
| May 18, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 32 min |
| May 18, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 47 min |
| May 18, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 46 min |
| May 18, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 47 min |
| May 18, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 34 min |
| May 18, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 49 min |
| May 18, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 49 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -458 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.