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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 2000Caldwell County, Daviess County, Missouri

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 26, 7:45 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EGallatin, MOLaw 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 26, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2000-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 121 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2000-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson53 min
May 26, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay51 min
May 26, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass54 min
May 26, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette66 min
May 26, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLivingston64 min
May 26, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson46 min
May 26, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson67 min
May 26, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn60 min
May 26, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCarroll26 min
May 26, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSaline55 min
May 26, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton39 min
May 26, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair, Putnam, Schuyler57 min
May 26, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSullivan57 min
May 26, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis67 min
May 26, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon, Randolph51 min
May 26, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Johnson45 min
May 26, 9:05 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson, Pettis55 min
May 26, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHoward60 min
May 26, 9:25 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson65 min
May 26, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper60 min
May 26, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis62 min
May 26, 10:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCooper, Pettis3 hr
May 26, 10:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXJohnson3 hr
May 26, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates57 min
May 27, 1:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCooper, Pettis6 hr
May 27, 2:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass46 min
May 27, 3:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry48 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.