Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 208
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 14, 1998, 3:00 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; 30 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 1998, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1998, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Smith County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Gage County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Gage, Pawnee | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Johnson | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall | 23 min |
| Apr 14, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Seward | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 32 min |
| Apr 14, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Butler, Seward | 35 min |
| Apr 14, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Nemaha, Otoe | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saunders | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge, Douglas, Washington | 45 min |
| Apr 14, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Saunders | 50 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 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.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Douglas, Sarpy, Washington | 5 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 1998Tornado Watches in Kansas, 1998Every tornado 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.