Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1998, 12:06 AM CDT for Chariton County, Randolph County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 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 20, 1998, 12:06 AM CDT (05:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1998, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chariton County, MO, Randolph County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 12:20 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Keytesville, MO | Golfball-size hail was reported in Keytesville by a local radio station. |
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 19, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 948 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2347 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
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 19, 2:24 PM CDT, 9 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:24 PM CDT, 9 hours 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 224 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998 MAIN FORECAST CONCERN IS PRECIPITATION CHANCES THROUGH 3RD PERIOD. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY AND SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWING BOUNDARY OVER SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN KANSAS MAKING ITS MOVE NORTHWARD. HAVE SOME CONCERN REGARDING CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT WITH SURFACE HEATING ALONG BOUNDARY...AS SATELLITE IMAGERY ALREADY SHOWING SOME CU FORMING ALONG AND BEHIND FRONT. DESPITE STRONG WARM AIR AND THETA-E ADVECTION TONIGHT...LACK OF ANY SYNOPTIC SCALE UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT SHOULD LIMIT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. WILL LEAVE OUT OF FORECAST AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER THIS WILL DEFINATELY HAVE TO MONITORED. ATTENTION THEN TURNS TO BOUNDARY AND SHORTWAVE APPROACHING FROM WEST AND NORTHWEST. GOING FORECAST HAS THIS COVERED WELL...SO WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO POPS. WARM MID-LEVEL TEMPERATURES MAY INITIALLY BE A PROBLEM FOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT...HOWEVER BOTH ETA AND NGM HINT AT H7 THERMAL TROUGH ASSOCIATED WITH SHORTWAVE WHICH MAY ALLOW FOR SOME DEVELOPMENT MAINLY AFTER 00Z SUNDAY. AGREE WITH NCEP DISCUSSIONS...WHICH STALLS BOUNDARY OVER AREA AND ROTATES SERIES OF WEAK SHORTWAVES OVER IT INTO EXTENDED PERIOD. NOCTURNAL MCS DEVELOPMENT APPEARS POSSIBLE...AND AS A RESULT WILL INSERT CHANCE FOR TSRA FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY. FWC/FAN GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES APPEAR TO BE IN BALLPARK...SO WILL NOT STRAY FAR. .EAX... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. MJM
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
855 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0825 PM LONE TREE MO 1 INCH HAIL
06/19/98 CASSLocal storm report, Jun 19, 8:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
855 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0825 PM LONE TREE MO 1 INCH HAIL
06/19/98 CASSLocal storm report, Jun 19, 11:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1105 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCA
TION....
1025 PM OTTERVILLE MO 1 INCH HAIL
06/19/98 COOPER
1025 PM 2 W LA CYGNE KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/19/98 LINN
JULYLocal storm report, Jun 19, 11:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1105 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCA
TION....
1025 PM OTTERVILLE MO 1 INCH HAIL
06/19/98 COOPER
1025 PM 2 W LA CYGNE KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/19/98 LINN
JULYLocal storm report, Jun 19, 11:47 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1147 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1046 PM SOMERSET KS 65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/19/98 MIAMI
1110 PM FOSTER MO WIND DAMAGE
06/19/98 BATES TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN....CITY COMPLETELY
WITHOUT POWER
JULYLocal storm report, Jun 19, 11:47 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1147 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1046 PM SOMERSET KS 65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/19/98 MIAMI
1110 PM FOSTER MO WIND DAMAGE
06/19/98 BATES TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN....CITY COMPLETELY
WITHOUT POWER
JULYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 39 min |
| Jun 19, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 41 min |
| Jun 19, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 40 min |
| Jun 20, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 26 min |
| Jun 20, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 42 min |
| Jun 20, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette | 38 min |
| Jun 20, 3:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 47 min |
| Jun 20, 5:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 38 min |
| Jun 20, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 44 min |
| Jun 20, 7:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 48 min |
| Jun 20, 10:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 46 min |
| Jun 20, 10:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 10:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 48 min |
| Jun 20, 11:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 4 hr |
| Jun 20, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Holt | 40 min |
| Jun 19, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 41 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.