Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 570
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 13, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT for 35 counties in Kansas; 21 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami 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, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Dade County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Ray County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 8:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cedar, Vernon | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 46 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 1979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 35 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Kansas, 1998Tornado Watches in Missouri, 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.