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Tornado Watch 693

June 28, 199835 counties in Kansas; 39 counties in Missouri; 13 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 28, 1998, 7:00 PM CDT for 35 counties in Kansas; 39 counties in Missouri; 13 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1998, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1998, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 87 counties

Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clark County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jefferson, Shawnee	31 min
Jun 28, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary	47 min
Jun 28, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	46 min
Jun 28, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Shawnee	26 min
Jun 28, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary	48 min
Jun 28, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	64 min
Jun 28, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	63 min
Jun 28, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson	61 min
Jun 28, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary	48 min
Jun 28, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	30 min
Jun 28, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Nemaha	30 min
Jun 28, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	64 min
Jun 28, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	26 min
Jun 28, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Ottawa	64 min
Jun 28, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton	42 min
Jun 28, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	42 min
Jun 28, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Richardson	32 min
Jun 28, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy	51 min
Jun 28, 9:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Saline	59 min
Jun 28, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	32 min
Jun 28, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Riley	49 min
Jun 28, 10:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	3 hr
Jun 28, 10:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	3 hr
Jun 28, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	47 min
Jun 28, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton	17 min
Jun 28, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Sullivan	43 min
Jun 28, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer, Putnam	47 min
Jun 28, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Worth	47 min
Jun 28, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Schuyler	32 min
Jun 28, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pawnee	49 min
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison, Nodaway and 1 more	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Sullivan	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clinton	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Putnam, Schuyler	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Mercer	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison	42 min
Jun 28, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Riley	37 min
Jun 28, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Knox, Scotland	45 min
Jun 28, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Richardson	49 min
Jun 28, 11:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Richardson	6 hr
Jun 29, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage	48 min

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 7536 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 985 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 315 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 18.3
Supercell composite: 82.8

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 16 more	6 hr
Jun 29, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atchison, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 26 more	6 hr
Jun 29, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Doniphan	6 hr
Jun 29, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Audrain, Marion, Monroe, Pike, Ralls	6 hr
Jun 29, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, Perry, Saint Louis, Scott, City of Saint Louis	6 hr
Jun 29, 11:15 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Burt, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Madison and 4 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.