Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1998, 12:45 AM CDT for Randolph County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 1998, 12:45 AM CDT (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1998, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Randolph County, MO
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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO
1245 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
RANDOLPH COUNTY IN MISSOURI
* UNTIL 130 AM CDT
* AT 1245 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED...A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FROM NEAR CLIFTON HILLS TO NEAR MOBERLY MOVING
EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
NEAR MILTON BY 1 AM
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...CAN EXPECT ONE INCH SIZE HAIL
...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH. FOR YOUR SAFETY...MOVE INDOORS...AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
BUNTING
LAT...LON 3958 9268 3933 9265 3930 9234 3959 9233What 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, 10 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:24 PM CDT, 10 hours 21 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 20, 12:09 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1209 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1204 AM FOSTER MO .75 INCH HAIL
06/20/98 BATES
JULYLocal storm report, Jun 20, 12:09 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1209 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1204 AM FOSTER MO .75 INCH HAIL
06/20/98 BATES
JULYLocal storm report, Jun 20, 12:30 AM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1230 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1222 AM RICH HILL MO 1 INCH HAIL
06/20/98 BATES
JULYLocal storm report, Jun 20, 12:30 AM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1230 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1222 AM RICH HILL MO 1 INCH HAIL
06/20/98 BATES
JULYLocal storm report, Jun 20, 12:37 AM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1237 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCArTION....
1223 AM (SZL)WHITEMAN AFB MO 70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/20/98 JOHNSON WIND GUST TO 61 KT
JULYLocal storm report, Jun 20, 12:37 AM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1237 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCArTION....
1223 AM (SZL)WHITEMAN AFB MO 70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/20/98 JOHNSON WIND GUST TO 61 KT
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, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Randolph | 39 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, 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 |
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.