Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 346
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 14, 1998, 11:15 PM CDT for 37 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1998, 11:15 PM CDT (04:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1998, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 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, Ellis 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, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 63 min |
| May 15, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell, Saline | 63 min |
| May 15, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 47 min |
| May 15, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 47 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 3552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 5:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 42 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley and 1 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
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.