Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1998, 7:30 AM CDT for Republic County, Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1998, 7:30 AM CDT (12:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:32 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
659
WFUS1 KTOP 101231 RRA
TORTOP
KSC157-201-101300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
730 AM CDT WED JUN 10 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA KS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 800 AM CDT
* AT 727 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF HADDAM...OR
ABOUT 26 MILES NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
MILES PER HOUR.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
MAHASKA
HADDAM
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 32 min |
| Jun 10, 8:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 8:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 9:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 10:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 61 min |
| Jun 10, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.