Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 600
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 17, 1998, 7:15 PM CDT for 42 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 1998, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1998, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 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, Ford County, KS, Graham County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton 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, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 46 min |
| Jun 17, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 61 min |
| Jun 17, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 54 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 3014 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 374 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 22.2
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 18, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Cherokee and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 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.