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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 29, 1998Buchanan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1998, 6:51 PM CDT for Buchanan 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 1998, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1998, 7:25 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Buchanan County, MO

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 29, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 29, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 2931 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 757 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 407 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 26.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 292350 RRA
TORMCI
MOC021-300025-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
651 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 725 PM CDT

* AT 650 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR HALLS...OR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST
  JOSEPH...MOVING SOU4THEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HALLS BY 655 PM
  RUSHVILLE AROUND 655 PM
  DE KALB BY 705 PM
  NEAR WALLACE AROUND 710 PM

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

$$

HUDSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	30 min
Jun 28, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	26 min
Jun 28, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton	42 min
Jun 28, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	42 min
Jun 28, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy	51 min
Jun 28, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	32 min
Jun 28, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton	17 min
Jun 28, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Sullivan	43 min
Jun 28, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer, Putnam	47 min
Jun 28, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Worth	47 min
Jun 28, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Schuyler	32 min
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison, Nodaway and 1 more	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Sullivan	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clinton	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Putnam, Schuyler	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Mercer	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison	42 min
Jun 29, 1:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Ray	49 min
Jun 29, 3:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	38 min
Jun 29, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette	46 min
Jun 29, 4:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Grundy	2 hr
Jun 29, 5:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson	3 hr
Jun 29, 6:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass	117 min
Jun 29, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Schuyler	46 min
Jun 29, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	55 min
Jun 29, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam	42 min
Jun 29, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	59 min
Jun 29, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Putnam, Schuyler	28 min

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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.