Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 849
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 28, 1998, 11:45 PM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 28, 1998, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 51 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Shawnee 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, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess 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, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 44 min |
| Sep 28, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 36 min |
| Sep 29, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 54 min |
| Sep 29, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 30 min |
| Sep 29, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 53 min |
| Sep 29, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Sep 29, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 36 min |
| Sep 29, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 48 min |
| Sep 29, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 33 min |
| Sep 29, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 65 min |
| Sep 29, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 46 min |
| Sep 29, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 40 min |
| Sep 29, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 45 min |
| Sep 29, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 64 min |
| Sep 29, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 64 min |
| Sep 29, 3:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon | 49 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1365 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 38 more | 6 hr |
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.