Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 8:53 PM CDT for Cedar County, Vernon 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 13, 1998, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 9:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cedar County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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 13, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 28.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
455 WFUS1 KSGF 140154 RRA TORSGF MOC039-217-140240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 853 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN CEDAR COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI EASTERN VERNON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 940 PM CDT * AT 853 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEVADA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DEDERICK AREA THROUGH 915 PM EL DORADO SPRINGS BY 920 PM THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. MOVE QUICKLY TO A DESIGNATED SHELTER...BASEMENT...OR INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. GAEDE/ALBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Ozark, Taney | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Hickory | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 10:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dade, Polk | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Greene, Webster | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 10:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Greene | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 11:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Webster | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 11:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Texas, Wright | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Texas | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Shannon | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Shannon | 50 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.