Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1998, 11:56 AM CDT for Adair County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 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 18, 1998, 11:56 AM CDT (16:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1998, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Adair County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 2000 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
551
WUUS1 KMCI 181659 RRA
SVRMCI
MOC001-181730-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO
1156 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN ADAIR COUNTY IN MISSOURI
* UNTIL 1230 PM CDT
* AT 1156 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED...A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF MILLARD...OR ABOUT 15 MILES
SOUTH OF KIRKSVILLE AND ANOTHER SEVERE STORM NEAR
KIRKSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES PER HOUR.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
NEAR GIBBS AT 1205 PM CDT
8 MILES EAST OF BRASHEAR AT 1215 PM CDT
15 MILES EAST OF ADAIR AT 1225 PM CDT
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...CAN EXPECT HAIL UP TO ONE AND ONE
HALF INCHES IN DIAMETER...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH. FOR YOUR
SAFETY...MOVE INDOORS...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4004 9266 4005 9235 4035 9236 4035 9268What 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 18, 3:40 AM CDT, 8 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:40 AM CDT, 8 hours 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 340 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1998 LTST STLT/88D RETURNS AND SFC OBS SHOW WAA -SHRA OVER ERN/SERN CWA AND WKNG SQLLN ENTERING XTRM NWRN MO ATTM. KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON SRN EDGE OF WRN CNVCTN...BUT AIRMASS APPARENTLY STILL CAPPED ENOUGH TO PREVENT DEVELOPMENT FURTHER S. MDLS FAIRLY CONSISTENT THIS RUN...AND HAPPY TO SEE MDL SOLNS CONVERGE ON AVN SOLUTION FROM PAST FEW RUNS. CDFNT PROGD THROUGH KMKC JUST AFTER NOON TDY...AND THROUGH CWA BY 19/00Z. ON THE FENCE ABOUT THE NEED FOR FFA IN NW MO AS FFG VERY LOW...BUT MORE ACTIVITY BETWEEN SQLLN AND FROPA NOT GUARANTEED...SO MIGHT BE BEST TO APPROACH CASE BY CASE. TEMPS STILL QUITE WARM...WITH 08Z READINGS STILL AOA 80F NEARLY EVERYWHERE. SOME MIDLVL COOLING XPCTD AFT FROPA...BUT STILL WILL CONT TEMPS FROM PREV PKG DUE TO WARM START. AFT FROPA...MOISTURE QUICKLY BECOMES LACKING. PREV PKG HAS THIS WELL COV ERED...ALTHOUGH WL UP TEMPS FRI A TIDGE WITH GOOD W/SW FLOW AND M/SNY SKIES. SEE NO REASON TO MESS WITH XTNDD. JHV .EAX... MO...NONE. KS...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 18, 8:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
813 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0810 AM SEDALIA MO 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/18/98 PETTISLocal storm report, Jun 18, 8:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
813 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0810 AM SEDALIA MO 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/18/98 PETTISLocal storm report, Jun 18, 9:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
915 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0855 AM MARSHALL MO WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98 SALINE BIG TREE DOWN ALONG
RAILROAD TRACKS BETWEEN
MARSHALL A`ND MIAMILocal storm report, Jun 18, 9:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
915 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0855 AM MARSHALL MO WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98 SALINE BIG TREE DOWN ALONG
RAILROAD TRACKS BETWEEN
MARSHALL A`ND MIAMILocal storm report, Jun 18, 10:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1028 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0930 AM BRUNSWICK MO WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98 CHARITON TREE REPORTED DOWNLocal storm report, Jun 18, 10:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1028 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0930 AM BRUNSWICK MO WIND DAMAGE
06/18/98 CHARITON TREE REPORTED DOWNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 7:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 8:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 9:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 45 min |
| Jun 18, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt, Nodaway | 30 min |
| Jun 18, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Nodaway, Worth | 41 min |
| Jun 18, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Ray | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, Grundy, Livingston | 32 min |
| Jun 18, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 96 min |
| Jun 18, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Ray | 77 min |
| Jun 18, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 75 min |
| Jun 18, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Macon | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Schuyler | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 81 min |
| Jun 18, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon, Randolph | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 56 min |
| Jun 18, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.