Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 90, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1998, 10:10 PM CDT for Reynolds County, Missouri. It was in force for 65 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 18, 1998, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1998, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reynolds County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 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 18, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 3542 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 12.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
661 WFUS1 KSTL 190311 RRA TORSTL MOC179-190415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1010 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... REYNOLDS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 1010 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR GLADDEN IN DENT COUNTY... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... OATES BLACK JOHNSONS SHUT INS STATE PARK A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND IN YOU ARE IN THE PATH...MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO A SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE NOW FOR PROTECTION. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST SHELTER. YOUR LIFE AND THE LIVES OF THOSE AROUND YOU MAY DEPEND ON YOUR ACTIONS. 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, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Osage | 36 min |
| Jun 18, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Montgomery, Warren | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford, Franklin, Washington | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 35 min |
| Jun 18, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron | 65 min |
| Jun 18, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison, Saint Francois | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 51 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.