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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 13, 2000Caldwell County, Missouri

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 1:13 PM CDTHail 1.5Hamilton, 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
Jun 13, 11:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2000-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1552 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 156 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 1:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDaviess37 min
Jun 13, 1:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair, Macon49 min
Jun 13, 1:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton26 min
Jun 13, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSchuyler27 min
Jun 13, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.