Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 10:48 PM CDT for Greene County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 13, 1998, 10:48 PM CDT (03:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 11:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 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 13, 11:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Fair Grove, 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 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, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 57 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.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 140348 RRA TORSGF MOC077-140420- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1048 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 1120 PM CDT * AT 1047 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NORTHERN GREEN COUNTY 15 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD ALONG THE POLK/GREENE COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING . * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... AREAS ALONG THE POLK/GREENE COUNTY LINE FROM NORTH OF EBENEZER AND SOUTH OF PLEASANT HOPE INCLUDING FAIR GROVE THIS WARNING DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. MOVE QUICKLY TO A DESIGNATED SHELTER...BASEMENT...OR INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. RUNNELS/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, 8:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cedar, Vernon | 47 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, 10:56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.