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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 29, 1998Adair County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1998, 7:03 PM CDT for Adair County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 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 29, 1998, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1998, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Adair 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, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2291 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 122 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 282 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 358 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.

248 
WFUS1 KMCI 300004 RRA
TORMCI
MOC001-300030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO
703 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
     ADAIR COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 703 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR...INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF KIRKSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
  20 MILES PER HOUR.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE...
     5 MILES EAST OF KIRKSVILLE AT 705 PM CDT
     3 MILES SOUTH OF ADAIR AT 720 PM CDT
     4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ADAIR AT 730 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

LAT...LON 4014 9279 4012 9240 4029 9237 4032 9273

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Platte	60 min
Jun 29, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	47 min
Jun 29, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	60 min
Jun 29, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	62 min
Jun 29, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	30 min
Jun 29, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	40 min
Jun 29, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	54 min
Jun 29, 9:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Macon, Randolph	3 hr
Jun 29, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	51 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.