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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 13, 2000Schuyler County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 1:48 PM CDT for Schuyler County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 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, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2000, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Schuyler County, MO

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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
Jun 13, 2:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60 ELancaster, MOCorn was flattened, and trim was torn off a house.

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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 213 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2000-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 671 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2000-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 356 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
671 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
449 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
356 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
366 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 131848
SVRMCI
MOC197-131915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
148 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SCHUYLER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 143 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER GLENWOOD...OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTH OF
  KIRKSVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE QUARTER SIZE HAIL...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.

LAT...LON 4058 9269 4036 9263 4037 9240 4059 9240

PB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 12:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell38 min
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, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison56 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.