Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1998, 2:48 PM CDT for Crawford County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report 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 13, 1998, 2:48 PM CDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1998, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 3:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Cuba, MO | 3/4 inch hail was reported in Cuba. |
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 13, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 407 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 131948 RRA SVRSTL MOC055-132030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 248 PM CDT MON APR 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...WEST CENTRAL CRAWFORD COUNTY AT 250 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE WEST CENTRAL PORTION OF CRAWFORD MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE THE CITIES OF CUBA AND STEELVILLE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WIPNDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 13, 10:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ009-010-018-019-026- 027-034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-132145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1040 AM CDT MON APR 13 1998 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN ST LOUIS. AREAS INCLUDED ARE PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST...CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE REGION AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS MISSOURI. STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF EAST M4ISSOURI. BECHTOLD
Special weather statement, Apr 13, 10:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ009-010-018-019-026- 027-034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-132145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1040 AM CDT MON APR 13 1998 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN ST LOUIS. AREAS INCLUDED ARE PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST...CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE REGION AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS MISSOURI. STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF EAST M4ISSOURI. BECHTOLD
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 10:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 49 min |
| Apr 13, 12:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Francois | 56 min |
| Apr 13, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 50 min |
| Apr 13, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 63 min |
| Apr 13, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 49 min |
| Apr 13, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 41 min |
| Apr 13, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway, Montgomery | 48 min |
| Apr 13, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Callaway, Montgomery | 40 min |
| Apr 13, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Crawford | 51 min |
| Apr 13, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Warren | 41 min |
| Apr 13, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 51 min |
| Apr 13, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 42 min |
| Apr 13, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Warren | 53 min |
| Apr 13, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Washington | 49 min |
| Apr 13, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 44 min |
| Apr 13, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Apr 13, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 65 min |
| Apr 13, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 60 min |
| Apr 13, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Washington | 66 min |
| Apr 13, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 66 min |
| Apr 13, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 41 min |
| Apr 13, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 54 min |
| Apr 13, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 63 min |
| Apr 13, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | City of Saint Louis | 40 min |
| Apr 13, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 49 min |
| Apr 13, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds | 41 min |
| Apr 13, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Madison | 58 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.