Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 29, 2000, 2:31 PM CST for Clinton County, DeKalb County, Missouri. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report 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
- Feb 29, 2000, 2:31 PM CST (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2000, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 3:16 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Plattsburg, 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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1450 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 625 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 554 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
641 WUUS53 KEAX 292031 SVRMCI MOC049-061-063-292130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 231 PM CST TUE FEB 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLINTON COUNTY IN MISSOURI DAVIESS COUNTY IN MISSOURI SOUTHEASTERN DEKALB COUNTY IN MISSOURI * UNTIL 330 PM CST * AT 231 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF PLATTSBURG...OR 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ST JOSEPH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... TURNEY AT 240 PM CST CAMERON AT 250 PM CST WINSTON AT 305 PM CST ALTAMONT AT 310 PM CST JAMESON AT 325 PM CST OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PERRIN...OSBORN...LATHROP AND GALLATIN. 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. MB/BB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 2:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 59 min |
| Feb 29, 2:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 53 min |
| Feb 29, 2:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 61 min |
| Feb 29, 4:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Livingston | 58 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.