Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 529
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 8, 1998, 5:00 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1998, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1998, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chase | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Montgomery | 63 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 28 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
- 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
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, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Dickinson and 29 more | 6 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.