Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1998, 2:48 AM CDT for Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 62 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
- May 22, 1998, 2:48 AM CDT (07:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1998, 3:50 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
186 WUUS1 KSTL 220749 RRA SVRSTL MOC163-220850- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 248 AM CDT FRI MAY 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PIKE COUNTY MISSOURI IN NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 350 AM CDT * AT 246 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM PAYSON TO NEW LONDON TO MARK TWAIN LAKE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED... LOUSIANA BOWLING GREEN CLARKSVILLE THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. MOVE QUICKLY TO A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS. DM/RP
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 48 min |
| May 22, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Scotland | 60 min |
| May 22, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 61 min |
| May 22, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 65 min |
| May 22, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clark, Lewis | 63 min |
| May 22, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 63 min |
| May 22, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion, Shelby | 63 min |
| May 22, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Ralls | 61 min |
| May 22, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 49 min |
| May 22, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade | 45 min |
| May 22, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.