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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 14, 1998Adair County, Schuyler County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 1:48 PM CDT for Adair County, Schuyler County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 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, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1998, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Adair County, MO, Schuyler County, MO

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 922 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

651 
WFUS1 KMCI 141848 RRA
TORMCI
MOC001-197-141930-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO
148 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
     SCHUYLER COUNTY IN MISSOURI
     EASTERN ADAIR COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* AT 148 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER SUBLETTE...OR ABOUT 8
  MILES NORTH OF KIRKSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE...
     OVER GREENTOP AT 150 PM CDT
     2 MILES EAST OF GREENTOP AT 155 PM CDT
     5 MILES EAST OF QUEEN CITY AT 205 PM CDT
     4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNING AT 215 PM CDT
     OVER DOWNING AT 230 PM CDT

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

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR MISSOURI.

LAT...LON 4034 9270 4008 9258 4005 9239 4045 9221
          4060 9260

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, 1:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Caldwell	28 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, 2:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Schuyler	35 min

Nearby

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