Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 4:14 AM CDT for Johnson County, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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 29, 1998, 4:14 AM CDT (09:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Odessa, MO | The Odessa Fire Department reported 4 inch diameter tree limbs blown down in Odessa. |
| Jun 29, 4:38 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Pittsville, MO | The Johnson County heriff's Office reported a wind gust to 70 MPH during a severe thunderstorm along Route W a mile west of Pittsville. |
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 29, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 7536 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 315 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 18.3
- Supercell composite
- 82.8
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 29, 4:05 AM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 4:05 AM CDT, 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 405 AM CDT MON JUN 29 1998 FORECAST CONCERNS INCLUDE HEAT...PCP AND ASSOCD POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING/FLASH FLOODING. CNVTVN ONGOING MNLY N OF MO RVR ERY THIS AM AS LLJ CONTS TO FEED INTO NE KS/NW MO. 00Z UA INDCD SHRTWV CNTRL NEB INTO CNTRL KS...WITH CURRENT PROFILERS SHOWG FEATURE NOW INTO ERN NEB/KS. XPC CURRENT ACTVTY TO LINGER VCNTY OF MO RVR...BFR DCRG IN CVRG AND INTENSITY SHRTLY AFT SUNRISE AS LLJ WKNS AND SUBSIDENCE TAKES OVR BHND SHRTWV. FF POTENTIAL WL NOT BE WDSPRD THIS MRNG...SO AM INCLINED TO ALLOW FFA TO EXPIRE WITH ZONE ISSUANCE. INITIAL 1ST PD CONCERN THEN IS HEAT ADVY...CURRENTLY IN EFFECT FOR FAR SRN ZONES ONLY. EXTENSIVE CLD CVR AND POSITION OF BNDRY TO PLAY ROLE IN PSBL EXPANSION OF ADVY. GRIDDED DATA LYR MEAN RH INDCG CLD CVR TO RPDLY DCRS BY 18Z XCP IN FAR N. CURRENT CNVTVN MAKG BNDRY DIFFICULT TO DEFINE...BUT XPC FEATURE TO SET UP ACRS NRN MO BY THIS AFTN. MID AND UPR 70 DWPTS ALREADY PREVAILANT ALG AND S OF MO RVR... WITH DWPTS LKLY TO CLIMB A FEW DEGREES WITH EVAPOTRANSPIRATION. PER COORD WITH STL AND TOP...WL ADD LOCATIONS FM STJ TO MOBERLY AND S. TOYED WITH IDEA OF LINGERG INTO TNGT...BUT WITH BNDRY EVENTUALLY PUSHING THRU...XPC INDICES TO DROP BLO 80 BY MRNG. POSITION OF BNDRY ONCE AGN TO BE FOCUS FOR REDVLPMT THIS AFTN...BUT THIS LKLY WL BE LTR AS AMS WL NEED TIME TO RECOVER FM OVRNGT CNVTVN. XPC THIS ACTVTY TO BCM MORE WDSPRD AND ENHANCED EVE INTO MON NGT TIME FRAME AS SHRTWV AND JET DYNAMICS DROP IN FM NRN PLAINS. THO STORMS WILL BE MOVG FASTER THAN SUN NGT/MON MRNG...WL NOT TAKE MUCH MORE RAIN TO PRESENT H2O PROBLEMS AGN...SPLCY N OF MO RVR. WITH WDSPRD PCP LKLY TO HOLD OFF TIL EVE...WL NOT ISSUE FFA 1ST PD...AND HOLD OFF ON LOCKG DAY SHIFT INTO 2ND PD FFA. .EAX... HEAT ADVISORY TODAY FOR MO ZONES MOZ020>022... MOZ028>033...MOZ037>040...MOZ043>046...MOZ053>054. HEAT ADVISORY TODAY FOR KS ZONES KSZ025...KSZ057... KSZ060...KSZ102>105. DJV
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 12:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-290630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 1225 AM CDT MON JUN 29 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 697 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM FOR FAR NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST INTO NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 693 FOR THE AREA IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. THIS TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN REPLACED BY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 697...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM. LOCATIONS ALONG AND NORTH OF A KANSAS CITY METRO TO FAYETTE LINE ARE INCLUDED IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. ALL WATCHES HAVE BEEN DROPPED FOR RESIDENTS SOUTH OF THIS LINE. DJV
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 3:26 AM CDT, 48 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Jun 29, 3:58 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
358 AM CDT MON JUN 29 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0355 AM KANSAS CITY MO 59 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/98 JACKSON MEASURED WIND GUST AT
31ST AND MAIN.
REPORTED BY KMBZ
TELEVISION.
HUDSONLocal storm report, Jun 29, 3:58 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
358 AM CDT MON JUN 29 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0355 AM KANSAS CITY MO 59 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/98 JACKSON MEASURED WIND GUST AT
31ST AND MAIN.
REPORTED BY KMBZ
TELEVISION.
HUDSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 30 min |
| Jun 28, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 26 min |
| Jun 28, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton | 42 min |
| Jun 28, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 42 min |
| Jun 28, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton | 17 min |
| Jun 28, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Sullivan | 43 min |
| Jun 28, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer, Putnam | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Worth | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Schuyler | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison, Nodaway and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Adair, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Sullivan | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Putnam, Schuyler | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Mercer | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Ray | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 3:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 38 min |
| Jun 29, 4:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Grundy | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 5:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cass | 117 min |
| Jun 29, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Schuyler | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Putnam | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Putnam, Schuyler | 28 min |
| Jun 29, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 3:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 24 min |
| Jun 29, 3:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 39 min |
| Jun 29, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.