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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 14, 1998Bates County, Cass County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 1998, 11:26 PM CDT for Bates County, Cass County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 14, 1998, 11:26 PM CDT (04:26 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 1998, 11:55 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 14, 11:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Merwin, MO	The Drexel Fire Department reported golfball-size hail 3 miles north of Merwin.
Apr 14, 11:40 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Drexel, MO	The Drexel Fire Department reported golfball-size hail in Drexel during a severe thunderstorm.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 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

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The text

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

881 
WFUS1 KMCI 150425 RRA
TORMCI
MOC013-037-150455-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1126 PM CDT TUE APR 14 1998


* TORNADO WARNING FOR
    NORTHERN BATES COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
    SOUTHERN CASS COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1155 PM CDT

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    DREXEL AT 1130 PM
    MERWIN AT 1130 PM
    AMSTERDAM AT 1130 PM
    ADRIAN AT 1140 PM

* AT 1123 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 1 MILE WEST OF MERWIN MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING.

MITCHELL

The 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, 10:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	48 min
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, 11:53 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.