Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 72, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 3:05 PM CDT for Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 35 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
- Jun 14, 1998, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 3:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 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 20:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 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
- 1254 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 142005 RRA TORSTL MOC163-142040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 305 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN PIKE COUNTY MISSOURI IN NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 340 PM CDT * AT AT 304 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... CYRENE CLARKSVILLE THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION! IF IN THE PATH...TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT IF AVAILABLE. IF NOT...STAY ON THE LOWEST LEVEL AND GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. MOBILE HOMES AND AUTOMOBILESHOULD BE ABANDONED IN FAVOR OF A STRONG STRUCTURE. AS A LAST RESORT... MOVE TO A DITCH OR CULVERT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. AMS/DF
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 4:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 5:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 6:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Warren | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 7:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Audrain | 15 min |
| Jun 14, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Pike | 36 min |
| Jun 14, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Ralls | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Scotland | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Clark, Scotland | 38 min |
| Jun 14, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Clark | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Pike | 65 min |
| Jun 14, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lewis | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Clark | 31 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.