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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 13, 1998Doniphan County, Kansas; Holt County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 11:02 PM CDT for Doniphan County, Kansas; Holt County, Missouri. It was in force for 28 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 13, 1998, 11:02 PM CDT (04:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1998, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Doniphan County, KS, Holt County, MO

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1998-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 825 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1998-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 218 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-313 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
443 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

188 
WFUS1 KMCI 140401
TORMCI
KSC043-MOC087-140430-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO
1102 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
     DONIPHAN COUNTY IN KANSAS
     HOLT COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1102PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF 
HIGHLAND...OR   ABOUT 21 MILES WEST OF TROY...MOVING EAST AT 45 
MILES PER HOUR.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE...
     3 MILES WEST OF HIGHLAND AT 1100 PM CDT
     OVER FANNING AT 1110 PM CDT
     5 MILES NORTHEAST OF TROY AT 1120 PM CDT

THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED DAMAGE IN NORTHEAST KANSAS

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN
THE BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING

&
BUNTING

LAT...LON 3990 9560 3978 9543 3965 9506 4009 9507

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn44 min
Jun 13, 9:10 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXDoniphan35 min
Jun 13, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Holt42 min
Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXNodaway37 min
Jun 13, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHolt33 min
Jun 13, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan32 min
Jun 14, 12:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClinton, DeKalb40 min
Jun 14, 12:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Daviess40 min
Jun 14, 12:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClinton32 min
Jun 14, 1:02 AM CDTTornado WarningEAXCaldwell28 min
Jun 14, 1:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll, Livingston34 min
Jun 14, 1:18 AM CDTTornado WarningEAXCarroll, Livingston42 min
Jun 14, 1:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton45 min
Jun 14, 2:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHarrison, Worth54 min
Jun 14, 2:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon, Randolph44 min
Jun 14, 1:48 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXAdair, Schuyler42 min
Jun 14, 2:25 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXSchuyler35 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1998Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes 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.