Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 7:13 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Daviess County, Missouri. It was in force for 62 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, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Caldwell County, MO, Daviess County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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, 7:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Gallatin, MO | Law enforcement officials reported limbs up to 6 inches in diameter were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
231 WUUS53 KEAX 270013 SVRMCI MOC025-061-270115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 713 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CALDWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 711 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 8 MILES WEST OF PATTONSBURG TO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MIRABILE...OR FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BETHANY TO 32 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ST JOSEPH...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... MIRABILE AT 720 PM CDT ALTAMONT AT 725 PM CDT COFFEY AT 730 PM CDT GALLATIN AT 735 PM CDT CARLOW AT 740 PM CDT BRAYMER AT 745 PM CDT THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. LAT...LON 4011 9420 3955 9419 3956 9380 4012 9381
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 53 min |
| May 26, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 51 min |
| May 26, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 54 min |
| May 26, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 66 min |
| May 26, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Livingston | 64 min |
| May 26, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 46 min |
| May 26, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 67 min |
| May 26, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 60 min |
| May 26, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Carroll | 26 min |
| May 26, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 55 min |
| May 26, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 39 min |
| May 26, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Putnam, Schuyler | 57 min |
| May 26, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Sullivan | 57 min |
| May 26, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 67 min |
| May 26, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon, Randolph | 51 min |
| May 26, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Johnson | 45 min |
| May 26, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 55 min |
| May 26, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 60 min |
| May 26, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 65 min |
| May 26, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 60 min |
| May 26, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 62 min |
| May 26, 10:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Pettis | 3 hr |
| May 26, 10:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 3 hr |
| May 26, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 57 min |
| May 27, 1:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Pettis | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 46 min |
| May 27, 3:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 48 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.