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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 18, 1998Daviess County, Grundy County, Livingston County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1998, 2:28 PM CDT for Daviess County, Grundy County, Livingston County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 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 18, 1998, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1998, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Daviess County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Livingston County, MO

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 18, 1:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 197 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1998-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2794 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1998-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 327 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2794 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
327 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
449 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
6.9
Supercell composite
26.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 18, 3:40 AM CDT, 10 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:40 AM CDT, 10 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
340 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

LTST STLT/88D RETURNS AND SFC OBS SHOW WAA -SHRA OVER ERN/SERN CWA
AND WKNG SQLLN ENTERING XTRM NWRN MO ATTM. KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON
SRN EDGE OF WRN CNVCTN...BUT AIRMASS APPARENTLY STILL CAPPED ENOUGH
TO PREVENT DEVELOPMENT FURTHER S.

MDLS FAIRLY CONSISTENT THIS RUN...AND HAPPY TO SEE MDL SOLNS
CONVERGE ON AVN SOLUTION FROM PAST FEW RUNS. CDFNT PROGD THROUGH
KMKC JUST AFTER NOON TDY...AND THROUGH CWA BY 19/00Z. ON THE FENCE
ABOUT THE NEED FOR FFA IN NW MO AS FFG VERY LOW...BUT MORE ACTIVITY
BETWEEN SQLLN AND FROPA NOT GUARANTEED...SO MIGHT BE BEST TO
APPROACH CASE BY CASE. TEMPS STILL QUITE WARM...WITH 08Z READINGS
STILL AOA 80F NEARLY EVERYWHERE. SOME MIDLVL COOLING XPCTD AFT
FROPA...BUT STILL WILL CONT TEMPS FROM PREV PKG DUE TO WARM START.

AFT FROPA...MOISTURE QUICKLY BECOMES LACKING. PREV PKG HAS THIS WELL
COV
ERED...ALTHOUGH WL UP TEMPS FRI A TIDGE WITH GOOD W/SW FLOW AND
M/SNY SKIES. SEE NO REASON TO MESS WITH XTNDD.

JHV

.EAX...
MO...NONE.
KS...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:14 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:16 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
216 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0148 PM    GRANT CITY                MO    60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/18/98   WORTH
Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:16 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
216 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0148 PM    GRANT CITY                MO    60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/18/98   WORTH
Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:22 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
222 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0222 PM    SHAWNEE                   KS    70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/18/98   JOHNSON                         70 MPH ON I 435 AND
                                           SHAWNEE MISSION PARKWAY
Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:22 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
222 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0222 PM    SHAWNEE                   KS    70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/18/98   JOHNSON                         70 MPH ON I 435 AND
                                           SHAWNEE MISSION PARKWAY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 7:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis42 min
Jun 18, 8:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis, Saline55 min
Jun 18, 9:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton52 min
Jun 18, 10:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper45 min
Jun 18, 11:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon55 min
Jun 18, 11:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair34 min
Jun 18, 1:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Holt, Nodaway30 min
Jun 18, 1:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry, Nodaway, Worth41 min
Jun 18, 1:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte55 min
Jun 18, 1:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay61 min
Jun 18, 1:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson61 min
Jun 18, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Ray62 min
Jun 18, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay40 min
Jun 18, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass96 min
Jun 18, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson60 min
Jun 18, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette, Ray77 min
Jun 18, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates75 min
Jun 18, 3:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll42 min
Jun 18, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair, Macon42 min
Jun 18, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSchuyler52 min
Jun 18, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry81 min
Jun 18, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon, Randolph49 min
Jun 18, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSaline60 min
Jun 18, 4:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis56 min
Jun 18, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper51 min
Jun 18, 12:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDoniphan42 min
Jun 18, 1:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLeavenworth43 min
Jun 18, 2:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson60 min
Jun 18, 2:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiami81 min
Jun 18, 3:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.