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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 26, 2000Caldwell County, Daviess County, DeKalb County, Missouri

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 26, 4:00 PM CSTHail 1Breckenridge, MO
Mar 26, 4:00 PM CSTHail 0.75Lock Spgs, MO
Mar 26, 4:03 PM CSTHail 0.88Amity, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 26, 12:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2000-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 2:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison42 min
Mar 26, 2:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXNodaway57 min
Mar 26, 3:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHolt44 min
Mar 26, 3:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte51 min
Mar 26, 3:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon46 min
Mar 26, 3:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClinton40 min
Mar 26, 4:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Jackson42 min
Mar 26, 4:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLivingston47 min
Mar 26, 4:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Johnson, Lafayette41 min
Mar 26, 4:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Carroll, Ray41 min
Mar 26, 4:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson43 min
Mar 26, 5:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis, Saline45 min
Mar 26, 5:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Johnson, Lafayette49 min
Mar 26, 5:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll46 min
Mar 26, 5:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton46 min
Mar 26, 5:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry, Johnson60 min
Mar 26, 5:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis55 min
Mar 26, 5:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper, Howard51 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.