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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 2000Andrew County, Nodaway County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 5:49 PM CDT for Andrew County, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2000, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Andrew County, MO, Nodaway County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Maryville, MO	A tornado touched down 1.5 smiles south of Maryville and traveled north for approximately one mile, damaging or destroying three farm outbuildings 1 mile south of Maryville. The homeowner witnessed the brief tornadic spin-up, and observed rotation in the debr

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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

805 
WUUS53 KEAX 262249
SVRMCI
MOC003-147-262330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
549 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ANDREW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
  NODAWAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MARYVILLE

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 544 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FILLMORE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  ST JOSEPH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ROSENDALE AT 600 PM CDT
  BARNARD AT 605 PM CDT
  ARKOE AT 610 PM CDT
  GUILFORD AT 615 PM CDT
  CONCEPTION AT 620 PM CDT
  CLYDE AT 625 PM CDT

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN
DIAMETER...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. FOR YOUR SAFETY...MOVE
INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING IS A THREAT
FROM ALL THUNDERSTORMS. HEAVY RAINS CAN CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF
LOW LYING AREAS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
PLEASANT HILL.

LAT...LON 4014 9504 3994 9498 4000 9464 4055 9466
          4055 9515

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	43 min
May 26, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Nodaway	33 min
May 26, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	46 min
May 26, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	66 min
May 26, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry	62 min
May 26, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Worth	57 min
May 26, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton, DeKalb	41 min
May 26, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	54 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.