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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 643

June 22, 199863 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 22, 1998, 9:30 PM CDT for 63 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1998, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1998, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 63 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barton County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

Warnings issued inside it

27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 9:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee47 min
Jun 22, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno58 min
Jun 22, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards33 min
Jun 22, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick61 min
Jun 22, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee34 min
Jun 22, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush35 min
Jun 22, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton55 min
Jun 22, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford33 min
Jun 22, 10:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno64 min
Jun 22, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick64 min
Jun 22, 11:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSaline62 min
Jun 22, 11:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTReno, Sedgwick4 hr
Jun 22, 11:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno63 min
Jun 22, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWabaunsee58 min
Jun 23, 12:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay30 min
Jun 23, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler57 min
Jun 23, 12:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson46 min
Jun 23, 12:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, Sedgwick62 min
Jun 23, 12:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Pottawatomie31 min
Jun 23, 1:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno64 min
Jun 23, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud46 min
Jun 23, 1:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary, Riley43 min
Jun 23, 1:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown, Jackson46 min
Jun 23, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRepublic45 min
Jun 23, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington43 min
Jun 23, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey33 min
Jun 23, 2:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPFranklin59 min

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1998-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1688 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1998-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1688 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1104 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-0.8

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Rawlins6 hr
Jun 23, 3:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Rawlins3 hr
Jun 23, 4:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBourbon, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte6 hr

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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.