Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 1998, 10:37 PM CST for Bates County, Cass County, Missouri. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 9, 1998, 10:37 PM CST (04:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 1998, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 10:57 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Everett, MO | Several large tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
159
WUUS1 KMCI 100440 RRA
SVRMCI
MOC013-037-100530-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO
1037 PM CST MON NOV 9 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CASS COUNTY IN MISSOURI
BATES COUNTY IN MISSOURI
* UNTIL 1130 PM CST
* AT 1037 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED...A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR LA CYGNE TO 7 MILES SOUTH
OF MOUND CITY...OR ABOUT 21 MILES WEST OF BUTLER...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES PER HOUR.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
3 MILES NORTH OF AMORET AT 1040 PM CST
4 MILES EAST OF AMSTERDAM AT 1045 PM CST
NEAR HARRISONVILLE AT 1050 PM CST
NEAR BUTLER AT 1050 PM CST
3 MILES SOUTH OF ARCHIE AT 1055 PM CST
OVER GARDEN CITY AT 1105 PM CST
12 MILES EAST OF GUNN CITY AT 1120 PM CST
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...CAN EXPECT WIND GUSTS UP TO 80 MPH.
FOR YOUR SAFETY...MOVE INDOORS...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3883 9459 3808 9460 3808 9410 3883 9414What 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 Nov 9, 4:07 PM CST, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 9, 4:07 PM CST, 6 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 407 PM CST MON NOV 9 1998 DEEPENING STORM OVR OF THE HIGH PLAINS THIS PM WILL EJECT OUT INTO THE CENTRAL PLNS LATE TNGT ACCOMPANIED BY STG UPR LVL SUPPORT. IN THE SHRT TERM FOR THIS EVNG...WRM FNT RMNS TO SW OF CWA BUT STG LLJ AHD OF PRES FALLS LIKELY TO LIFT FNT N OF FCST AREA SOMETIME THIS EVNG. WITH DEW PTS IN 50S/60S LIKELY TO PUSH NWRD INTO CWA. AWIPS VIS LOOP/MTR DATA SHWS 50 DEG DEW PT AT MCI WITH BINOVC JUST W OF STATE LINE. INSTABILITY SHLD INCREASE ENOUGH TO WARRENT CHC FOR ISOLD CNVTN. EVNG CREW WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR PSBL ISOLD SVR CELLS BUT DO NOT ANTICIPATE MUCH...IF ANY...IN THE WAY OF FLOODING. DEEPEST MSTR WILL REMAIN E OF CWA THEREFORE WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE EXCEEDINGS RAINFALL XPCTD TO MISS FCST AREA. LOWERED MEAN BASIN AVERAGES ACR ALL OF CWA IN FIRST PRD QPF PRODUCT. BIG FCST CONCERN HOWEVER IS STG WNDS LATE TNGT AND TUE. ALL MODELS SUGGEST STRONGEST SFC PRES GRADIENT NRN MO/SRN IA BUT 120 KT H3 JET FTHR S IN MO. WITH ANITICIPATED CLRG BY MID DAY TUE XPCT STG DOWNWARD TRANSFER OF MOMEMTUM AND WINDS APPROACHING ADVISORY CRITERIA. SINCE EVENT IS XPCTD IN SEC PRD WILL HOLD OFF IN ISSUING NPW. INSTEAD WENT WITH PLAYED UP SPS AND WILL LET MID SHIFT MAKE THE CALL TO WHEN AND WHERE TO ISSUE ANY NEEDED WND ADVISORY. AS FAR AS TEMPS GO STAYED CLOSER TO COOLER FAN NUMBERS. LWR TROPOSPHERIC CAA SUGGEST BY MODELS ON TUE SUPPORTS STDY OF FALLING TEMPS FM LO TO MID 40S. ALSO WITH SFC RDG AND DIMINISHING WNDS TUE NITE AND WED THINK MINS IN 20S LIKELY OVR ALL OF CWA WED AM. .EAX... MO...NONE KS...NONE BODNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 11:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry, Johnson | 38 min |
| Nov 10, 12:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 1:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Randolph | 38 min |
| Nov 10, 1:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 38 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.