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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 14, 1998Caldwell County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 1:02 AM CDT for Caldwell 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 14, 1998, 1:02 AM CDT (06:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1998, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Caldwell County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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.

738 
WFUS1 KMCI 140601 RRA
TORMCI
MOC025-140630-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO
102 AM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
     EASTERN CALDWELL COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 130 AM CDT

* AT 102 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF COWGILL...OR  
ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTH OF GALLATIN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES PER   
HOUR.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE...
     4 MILES NORTHEAST OF COWGILL AT 100 AM CDT
     5 MILES NORTHEAST OF BRAYMER AT 110 AM CDT
     13 MILES NORTHEAST OF BRAYMER AT 120 AM CDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO THREAT...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE
OCCURRING THIS STORM.

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 3964 9403 3952 9397 3955 9379 3978 9377

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt	42 min
Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	37 min
Jun 13, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	33 min
Jun 13, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Holt	35 min
Jun 13, 11:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Holt	28 min
Jun 13, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	32 min
Jun 14, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton, DeKalb	40 min
Jun 14, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Daviess	40 min
Jun 14, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton	32 min
Jun 14, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Livingston	34 min
Jun 14, 1:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Carroll, Livingston	42 min
Jun 14, 1:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton	45 min
Jun 14, 2:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison, Worth	54 min
Jun 14, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon, Randolph	44 min
Jun 14, 1:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Adair, Schuyler	42 min
Jun 14, 2:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Schuyler	35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.