Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1998, 9:52 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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 23, 1998, 9:52 PM CDT (02:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1998, 10:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ottawa County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 9:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Delphos, 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 23, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 2696 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 13.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 240252 RRA TORTOP KSC143-240340- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 952 PM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1040 PM CDT * AT 950 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 20 MILES SOUTH OF CONCORDIA NEAR DELPHOS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... DELPHOS SUMMERVILLE LAMAR ADA ABANDON MOBILE HOMES! GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING! AS A LAST RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD! REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN A:ND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. PB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 40 min |
| Jun 23, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 10:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay | 37 min |
| Jun 23, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 37 min |
| Jun 23, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 43 min |
| Jun 24, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 27 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.