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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 23, 2000Harrison County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 1:14 PM CDT for Harrison County, Missouri. It was in force for 61 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 23, 2000, 1:14 PM CDT (18:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2000, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Harrison County, MO

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:14 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 23, 1:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Eagleville, MO	The public reported several large trees down.

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 23, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 207 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3049 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -13 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.

164 
WUUS53 KEAX 231815
SVRMCI
MOC081-231915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
114 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HARRISON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BETHANY

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 111 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF NEW HAMPTON...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES NORTHWEST OF BETHANY...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BETHANY AT 125 PM CDT
  BLYTHEDALE AT 130 PM CDT

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.

LAT...LON 4056 9422 4019 9421 4018 9379 4054 9381

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 12:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway	67 min
Jun 23, 12:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Worth	66 min
Jun 23, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Mercer	65 min
Jun 23, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	62 min
Jun 23, 6:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	37 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.