Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 278, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1998, 1:57 PM CDT for Taney County, Missouri. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 22, 1998, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1998, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Taney County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Forsyth, 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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 730 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 22, 2:41 AM CDT, 11 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:41 AM CDT, 11 hours 16 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 1:00 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-231800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 100 PM CDT WED JUL 22 1998 THIS OUTLOOK CONTAINS INFORMATION FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS: BOURBON CHEROKEE CRAWFORD IN SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL...AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI BARRY DALLAS LACLEDE OREGON STONE BARTON DENT LAWRENCE OZARK TANEY BENTON DOUGLAS MARIES PHELPS TEXAS CAMDEN GREENE MCDONALD POLK VERNON CEDAR HICKORY MILLER PULASKI WEBSTER CHRISTIAN HOWELL MORGAN SHANNON WRIGHT DADE JASPER NEWTON ST CLAIR ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON... ...CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE MIDDLE AND UPPER 90S AND HEAT INDEX VALUES IN THE 100 TO 110 DEGREE RANGE WILL BE REPLACED BY A COLD FRONT WHICH WILL BRING COOLER WEATHER AND A CHANCE OF RAIN TO THE REGION FOR THE END OF THE WORK WEEK. THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY WILL CONTINUE FOR ONE MORE DAY WITH TEMPERATURES RISING INTO THE MIDDLE AND UPPER 90S AND HEAT INDEX READINGS IN THE 100 TO 108 DEGREE RANGE. A HEAT ADVISORY CONTINUED IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS AS WELL AS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI. DRINK PLENTY OF WATER AND TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS IN THE SHADE IF YOU MUST WORK OUTSIDE TODAY. A COLD FRONT FROM WESTERN KANSAS TO NORTHERN MISSOURI EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH THROUGH THURSDAY. RAIN CHANCES WILL INCREASE ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AS THE BOUNDARY APPROACHES. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE... MAINLY NORTH OF A PITTSBURG TO CAMDENTON AND VIENNA LINE. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE... PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ALSO POSSIBLE. A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN CENTRAL KANSAS TONIGHT AND MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS TOWARD MORNING. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM OVERNIGHT STORMS. THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SATURDAY LOOKS TO BE AROUND SUNRISE...WITH A ANOTHER CHANCE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS EACH DAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED IN CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. SUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Shannon | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 46 min |
| Jul 22, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps | 32 min |
| Jul 22, 6:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Oregon | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.