Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 73, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 3:29 PM CDT for Clark County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 min. 4 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
- Jun 14, 1998, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Wyaconda, MO | |
| Jun 14, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Luray, MO | |
| Jun 14, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Kahoka, MO | |
| Jun 14, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | St Patrick, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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 142029 RRA TORSTL MOC045-142115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 329 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLARK COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT AT 327 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LURAY... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... LURAY ATHENS A TORNADO WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM BY THE SCOTLAND COUNTY SHERIFF NEAR RUTLEDGE AT 309 PM. 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 G O 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, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Pike | 35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.