Tornado Warning 39, NWS Springfield, MO

Issued

Jun 19, 1998, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)

Expired

Jun 19, 1998, 8:35 PM CDT

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Springfield, MO

Area

Whole counties

Counties Laclede County, MO, Webster County, MO

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

789 
WFUS1 KSGF 200046 RRA
TORSGF
MOC105-225-200135-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
745 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LACLEDE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI
  NORTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 835 PM CDT

* AT 745PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES
  NORTH OF MARSHFIELD.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ELKLAND
  FORKNERS HILL
  CONWAY

AVOID THE TEMPTATION OF TRYING TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF A TORNADO.  IN
MANY CASES...BY THE TIME YOU SPOT A TORNADO IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO
PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST ITS DANGERS.  SEEK SHELTER NOW AND REMAIN
PROTECTED UNTIL THE DANGER HAS PASSED.

SS/DG

Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes in 1998

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.