Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 396
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 22, 1998, 1:30 PM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado; 8 counties in Nebraska; Goshen County, Laramie County, Platte County, Wyoming. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1998, 1:30 PM MDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1998, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Platte County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 45 min |
| May 22, 1:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 40 min |
| May 22, 1:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 34 min |
| May 22, 2:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver | 39 min |
| May 22, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 45 min |
| May 22, 2:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 24 min |
| May 22, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 45 min |
| May 22, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 32 min |
| May 22, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 40 min |
| May 22, 3:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 24 min |
| May 22, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 35 min |
| May 22, 4:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams | 34 min |
| May 22, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Morgan, Washington | 30 min |
| May 22, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 50 min |
| May 22, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Washington | 44 min |
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 5 hr |
| May 21, 7:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Butler, Chase, Clay, Custer and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 10:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Dodge, Douglas, Gage, Johnson, Lancaster and 7 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wyoming, 1998Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.