Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 1998, 10:12 PM CDT for Cass County, Henry County, Johnson County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 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
- Apr 14, 1998, 10:12 PM CDT (03:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1998, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Cass County, MO, Henry County, MO, Johnson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2148 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSTL 150314 RRA
TORMCI
MOC037-083-101-150400-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL KANSAS CITY MO
1012 PM CDT TUE APR 14 1998
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN MISSOURI
NORTHWESTERN HENRY COUNTY IN MISSOURI
* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
5 MILES EAST OF CENTERVIEW AT 1015 PM CDT
11 MILES NORTHEAST OF CENTERVIEW AT 1025 PM CDT 14 MILES
* AT 1012 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF CENTERVIEW...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 35 MILES PER HOUR.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN
THE BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM zON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING!
LAT...LON 3862 9368 3843 9410 3848 9416 3890 9389The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 32 min |
| Apr 14, 8:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Andrew | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | DeKalb | 22 min |
| Apr 14, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, DeKalb | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 9:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | DeKalb | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 11:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry, Johnson | 47 min |
| Apr 15, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 3:44 AM 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.