Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 12:52 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 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
- Jun 13, 2000, 12:52 PM CDT (17:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Caldwell County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:13 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Hamilton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1552 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KEAX 131753 SVRMCI MOC025-131830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1252 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CALDWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 130 PM CDT * AT 1248 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER KINGSTON...OR ABOUT 28 MILES WEST OF CHILLICOTHE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NETTLETON AT 100 PM CDT BRECKENRIDGE AT 105 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. LAT...LON 3977 9420 3954 9419 3955 9378 3978 9379 PB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Macon | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 26 min |
| Jun 13, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Schuyler | 27 min |
| Jun 13, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 56 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.