Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 85, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1998, 6:25 PM CDT for Cole County, Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 35 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 18, 1998, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1998, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cole County, MO, Moniteau County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 6:46 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Russellville, MO | |
| Jun 18, 6:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Lohman, MO | |
| Jun 18, 6:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Jefferson City, MO | |
| Jun 18, 6:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 1617 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1094 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
301 WFUS1 KSTL 182326 RRA TORSTL MOC051-135-190000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 625 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI EASTERN MONITEAU COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 624 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR HIGH POINT... MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... RUSSELLVILLE LOHMAN IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. IF NOT AVAILABLE...MOVE TO THE LOWEST FLOOR AND SEEK SHELTER IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED IN FAVOR OF A MORE SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE. DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO IN A VEHICLE GLASS/TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 10:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Moniteau | 44 min |
| Jun 18, 10:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 11:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 12:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Scotland | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Shelby | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Cole, Osage | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Scotland | 64 min |
| Jun 18, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clark | 32 min |
| Jun 18, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Shelby | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clark | 34 min |
| Jun 18, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 34 min |
| Jun 18, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Moniteau | 36 min |
| Jun 18, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Cole | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.