Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 335, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 1998, 1:45 AM CST for Boone County, Cole County, Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 65 min. 6 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
- Nov 10, 1998, 1:45 AM CST (07:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 1998, 2:50 AM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boone County, MO, Cole County, MO, Moniteau County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 1:47 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Mc Girk, MO | |
| Nov 10, 1:58 AM CST | Tornado F3 | Columbia, MO | |
| Nov 10, 2:00 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Columbia, MO | |
| Nov 10, 2:05 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Jefferson City, MO | |
| Nov 10, 2:05 AM CST | Hail 1 | Jefferson City, MO | |
| Nov 10, 2:05 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Wardsville, MO |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 505 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 565 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
063 WUUS1 KSTL 100748 RRA SVRSTL MOC019-051-135-100850- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 145 AM CST TUE NOV 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BOONE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI COLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI MONITEAU COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 250 AM CST * AT 144 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES WEST OF COLUMBIA TO HIGH POINT... MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED... MIDWAY COLUMBIA JEFFERSON CITY CENTERTOWN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DAMAGING HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. GKS/FG
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 12:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 12:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Osage | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 1:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Nov 10, 1:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Pike | 49 min |
| Nov 10, 1:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Pike | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 2:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway, Osage | 62 min |
| Nov 10, 2:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain | 62 min |
| Nov 10, 2:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade, Montgomery | 62 min |
| Nov 10, 2:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 63 min |
| Nov 10, 3:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford, Franklin | 65 min |
| Nov 10, 3:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion, Ralls | 65 min |
| Nov 10, 3:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Pike | 65 min |
| Nov 10, 3:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Warren | 65 min |
| Nov 10, 3:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 61 min |
| Nov 10, 3:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.