Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 97, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1998, 9:08 PM CDT for Warren County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 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 29, 1998, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 9:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 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 29, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 311 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
- 1641 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
180 WFUS1 KSTL 300209 RRA TORSTL MOC219-300255- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 908 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN AND EASTERN WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 955 PM CDT * AT 906 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO TORNADO LOCATED NEAR HIGH HILL... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... WARRENTON WRIGHT CITY TORNADO REPORTED IN THE TOWN OF WELLSVILLE 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 RP &
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Knox | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Shelby | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Monroe | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Audrain | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 9:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Montgomery, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 9:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Audrain, Monroe, Shelby | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Jefferson | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 10:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Callaway, Gasconade | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 10:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Boone | 3 hr |
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.