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Tornado Watch 135

March 29, 199834 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 29, 1998, 7:15 PM CST for 34 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 29, 1998, 7:15 PM CST (01:15 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 1998, 1:00 AM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Washington County, KS

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 7:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth64 min
Mar 29, 7:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa25 min
Mar 29, 7:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln63 min
Mar 29, 8:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Cloud, Ottawa36 min
Mar 29, 8:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa25 min
Mar 29, 9:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay34 min
Mar 29, 9:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford47 min
Mar 29, 10:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Washington28 min
Mar 29, 10:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth48 min
Mar 29, 10:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards46 min
Mar 29, 10:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall30 min
Mar 29, 10:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche47 min
Mar 29, 10:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell39 min
Mar 29, 10:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade47 min
Mar 29, 10:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell49 min
Mar 29, 10:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee47 min
Mar 29, 11:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa26 min
Mar 29, 11:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford47 min
Mar 29, 11:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton31 min
Mar 29, 11:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa50 min
Mar 29, 11:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRussell35 min
Mar 29, 11:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln48 min
Mar 29, 11:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards49 min
Mar 29, 11:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche50 min
Mar 29, 11:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton42 min
Mar 29, 11:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud29 min
Mar 29, 11:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington22 min
Mar 29, 11:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa46 min
Mar 30, 12:03 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt47 min
Mar 30, 12:13 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud32 min
Mar 30, 12:21 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford49 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1998-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1998-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 10:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Brown, Clark, Clay, Cloud and 38 more6 hr
Mar 30, 3:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 14 more6 hr

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.