Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 59, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 5:25 PM CDT for Pemiscot County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 min. 2 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, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 5:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pemiscot County, MO
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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 14, 5:26 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Wardell, MO | A roof was blown off of a trailer near Hayti. Several trees were knocked down between Wardell and Hayti. |
| Jun 14, 5:26 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Wardell, MO | Several houses had all of their windows broken between Wardell and Hayti. |
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, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 142224 RRA TORMEM MOC155-142255- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 525 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN PEMISCOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 555 PM CDT * AT 522 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR WARDELL OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARUTHERSVILLE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CARUTHERSVILLE BY 535 PM CDT .IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 46 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.