Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 545
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 10, 1998, 8:30 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; 29 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1998, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1998, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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.
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 50 min |
| Jun 10, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 40 min |
| Jun 10, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 22 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 3869 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.9
- Supercell composite
- 19.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Cooper and 19 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1998
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.