Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 3:50 PM CST for Caldwell County, Daviess County, DeKalb County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2000, 3:50 PM CST (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Caldwell County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 4:00 PM CST | Hail 1 | Breckenridge, MO | |
| Mar 26, 4:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Lock Spgs, MO | |
| Mar 26, 4:03 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Amity, MO |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 12:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KEAX 262152 SVRMCI MOC025-049-061-063-262230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 350 PM CST SUN MAR 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 CLINTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 430 PM CST * AT 350 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES SOUTH OF PATTONSBURG TO CAMERON TO 5 MILES WEST OF PERRIN. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR MAYSVILLE. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... GALLATIN AT 400 PM CST CARLOW AT 405 PM CST BRECKENRIDGE AT 410 PM CST THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE QUARTER SIZE HAIL...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. BB/SF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 42 min |
| Mar 26, 2:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 57 min |
| Mar 26, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 44 min |
| Mar 26, 3:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 51 min |
| Mar 26, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 3:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 4:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 42 min |
| Mar 26, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Livingston | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 4:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Johnson, Lafayette | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 4:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Ray | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 4:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 43 min |
| Mar 26, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 5:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Johnson, Lafayette | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 5:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry, Johnson | 60 min |
| Mar 26, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 55 min |
| Mar 26, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 51 min |
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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.