Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 572
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 13, 1998, 9:30 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1998, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Benton County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Washington County, AR, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Barry County, MO, Greene County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Pottawatomie | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Seminole | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Greene, Webster | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 10:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Greene | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 27 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 3674 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 16.9
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 14, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Independence and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jewell, Marshall, Nemaha and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Crawford, Dent, Franklin, Iron and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Knox, Schuyler, Scotland | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Iron, Jefferson, Lincoln and 15 more | 7 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.