Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 8:16 PM CDT for Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1998, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nemaha County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Bern, KS | |
| Jun 13, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Bern, KS | |
| Jun 13, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Berwick, KS | |
| Jun 13, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Berwick, KS | |
| Jun 13, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Sabetha, KS | |
| Jun 13, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Sabetha, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 825 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 443 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTOP 140117 RRA
TORTOP
KSC131-140145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
816 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA KS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN NEMAHA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
* UNTIL 845 PM CDT
* AT 815 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF BERN...OR
ABOUT 22 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES
PER HOUR.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
BERN
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...LEAVE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
58The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 30 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.