Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 1998, 8:01 PM CST for Newton County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 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
- Mar 30, 1998, 8:01 PM CST (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1998, 8:35 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Newton County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 8:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Diamond, MO | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1388 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 389 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
857 WFUS1 KSGF 310203 RRA TORSGF MOC145-310235- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 801 PM CST MON MAR 30 1998 * TORNADO WARNING FOR NEWTON COUNTY - SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 835 PM CST * SOME AREAS AFFECTED SENECA RACINE DIAMOND BY 820 PM * AT 8 PM SPRINGFIELD DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SOUTHEAST OTTAWA COUNTY 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SENECA...OR 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEOSHO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. SL/SR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 9:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 10:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas, Webster | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 10:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark | 62 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.