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Tornado Watch 527

June 8, 199835 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 8, 1998, 2:00 PM CDT for 35 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 1998, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1998, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 35 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks 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

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	48 min
Jun 8, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	32 min
Jun 8, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	59 min
Jun 8, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	35 min
Jun 8, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	65 min
Jun 8, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	33 min
Jun 8, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	64 min
Jun 8, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	60 min
Jun 8, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	48 min
Jun 8, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	63 min
Jun 8, 3:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	62 min
Jun 8, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	40 min
Jun 8, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	48 min
Jun 8, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	61 min
Jun 8, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ottawa	45 min
Jun 8, 4:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Ottawa	41 min
Jun 8, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey	60 min
Jun 8, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	60 min
Jun 8, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	44 min
Jun 8, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	46 min
Jun 8, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	60 min
Jun 8, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Ottawa	45 min
Jun 8, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Phillips, Smith	48 min
Jun 8, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey	62 min
Jun 8, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	61 min
Jun 8, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	47 min

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 203 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 713 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.6

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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
Jun 7, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Scott and 4 more	6 hr
Jun 8, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 23 more	6 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.