Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 42, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 1998, 6:04 PM CDT for Franklin County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. 3 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
- Aug 26, 1998, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1998, 6:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 6:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Ottawa, KS | |
| Aug 26, 6:21 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Ottawa, KS | Severe thunderstorms moved north across Franklin county producing numerous reports of damaging winds. Five planes were overturned and a business severely damaged at Ottawa airport. Much crop damage was also reported. |
| Aug 26, 6:24 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ottawa, 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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1409 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
432
WFUS1 KTOP 262306 RRA
TORTOP
KSC059-262335-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
604 PM CDT WED AUG 26 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA KS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
FRANKLIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 635 PM CDT
* AT 602 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF
PRINCETON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF OTTAWA...MOVING NORTH AT 30
MILES PER HOUR.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
WELLSVILLE
POMONA
RANTOUL
PRINCETON
WILLIAMSBURG
OTTAWA
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 44 min |
| Aug 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 33 min |
| Aug 26, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.