Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Kansas City, MO

Issued

Jun 13, 1998, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)

Expired

Jun 13, 1998, 8:40 PM CDT

In force

37 min

Issued by

NWS Kansas City, MO

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Nodaway County, MO

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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WUUS1 KMCI 140102 RRA
SVRMCI
MOC147-140145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO
803 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
     NODAWAY COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 840 PM CDT

* AT 803 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BARNARD...OR ABOUT 25   
MILES SOUTH OF MARYVILLE MO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MILES PER   
HOUR.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
     NEAR BARNARD BY 815 PM
     NEAR CONCEPTION BY 825 PM

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...CAN EXPECT GOLFBALL-SIZE 
HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH. FOR YOUR SAFETY...MOVE 
INDOORS...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND 
OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.

&
BUNTING

LAT...LON 4027 9505 4015 9497 4017 9465 4051 9465

NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 13, 3:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
330 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998

ISOLD TSTMS DVLPD IN WARM ADVECTION ZONE ALONG WMFNT THIS AFTN
ACROSS SRN PORTIONS OF FCST AREA...BUT MAIN SHOW IS TNGHT AS COMPLEX
OF SVR TSTMS WITH FLASH FLOOD POTL EXPECTED TO MOVE ACRS AREA.

SFC WMFNT AT MID AFTN LOCATED JUST S OF FCST AREA WITH VRY HIGH SFC
DEW PTS POOLED NR BNDRY. EXPECT TSTMS TO DVLP THIS AFTN IN VCTY OF
SFC LOW AS IT MOVES INTO NRN KS AND SWD ALG DRYLINE INTO CENTRAL KS.
ADDITIONAL TSTM DEVELOPMENT OVER CENTRAL/ERN NE EXPECTED AS
NOCTURNAL LLJ STRENGTHENS AND ENHANCES LIFT N OF WMFNT.  CONVECTION
ACRS NE EXPECTED TO DVLP INTO AN INTENSE MCS AND TURN SEWD ACRS MUCH
OF CWA TNGHT. FCST VALUES OF CAPE...VERTICAL WIND PROFILE...AND
MID-LVL DRY INTRUSION SUGGEST POTL FOR SVR WX WITH THIS SYSTEM.
HIGH VALUES OF PRECIPITABLE WATER AND STG LIFT N OF WMFNT SUGGEST
FLASH FLOOD POTL...AND BASED ON 3-HOUR FF GUIDANCE VALUES OF UNDER 2
INCHES...WL ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR ALL BUT XTRM NERN
COUNTIES... WHERE GUIDANCE VALUES ARE ABOUT AN INCH HIGHER.

IN LATER PERIODS...SOME CHC OF SHWRS/TSTMS AS S/W SLOWS AND THEN
CLOSES OFF OVER AREA...LEAVING AREA SUSCEPTIBLE TO WK S/W ENERGY
ROTATING AROUND SYS IN CYC FLO ALOFT.  GUIDANCE TEMPS LOOK
REASONABLE AND ARE GENERALLY FOLLOWED.

...EAX...
MO...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT ALL BUT XTRM NE COUNTIES
KS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT.

BUNTING

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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.