Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1998, 6:36 PM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. 2 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 10, 1998, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 7:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pottawatomie County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 6:37 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Belvue, KS | |
| Jun 10, 6:37 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Belvue, 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 10, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 58 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.
661
WFUS1 KTOP 102337 RRA
TORTOP
KSC149-197-110005-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
636 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA KS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL WABAUNSEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
SOUTHEASTERN POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
* UNTIL 705 PM CDT
* AT 634 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF BELVUE...OR
ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF MANHATTAN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
BELVUE
ST MARYS
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, 7:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 30 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, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 32 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.