Tornado, Lewis
- When
- June 14, 2:35 PM CST to 2:55 PM CST
- Where
- Lewis County, Lewistown to 1 mi NE of Monticello
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 9.5 mi
- Path width
- 75 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.080, -91.800
Tornado in Missouri, June 14, 1998
A tornado produced an intermittent damage path as it tracked across Lewis County. The tornado first caused damage along Highway 16 where a machine shed was destroyed.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS LSX wrote it up.
A tornado produced an intermittent damage path as it tracked across Lewis County. The tornado first caused damage along Highway 16 where a machine shed was destroyed. Tree damage was noted northeast of this area until structural damage again occurred near Monticello. Two farm storage buildings lost their roofs and a garage was knocked off its foundation. Two grain bins lost their tops and a home suffered minor damage from flying tree limbs. Several large trees were either snapped at the base or uprooted in this area as well.
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 181 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:34 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 14, 1998
- Flash Flooding in New York, June 14, 1998
- Tornadoes in Illinois, June 14, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, June 14, 1998
- Flooding in Maine, June 14 to 16, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 14 to 15, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 14, 1998
More
Every storm in Missouri in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Missouri, 1998Warnings in Missouri, June 1998
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5648756.