Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 4:47 PM CST for Jackson County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 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
- Mar 26, 2000, 4:47 PM CST (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Jackson County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 5:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Lees Summit, MO | Trees were downed and windows were blown out as a result of thunderstorm winds in the Lakewood area of Lees Summit. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 12:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 2530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KEAX 262248 SVRMCI MOC095-262330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 447 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 530 PM CST * AT 447 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER GRAIN VALLEY...OR 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL AND GUSTS TO 70 MPH ARE LIKELY. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE LEVASY...LEES SUMMIT...LAKE LOTAWANA...GRANDVIEW AND BLUE SPRINGS. LAT...LON 3910 9432 3886 9464 3885 9419 3914 9412
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 42 min |
| Mar 26, 2:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 57 min |
| Mar 26, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 44 min |
| Mar 26, 3:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 51 min |
| Mar 26, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 3:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Daviess, DeKalb | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 3:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 4:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 42 min |
| Mar 26, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Livingston | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 4:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Johnson, Lafayette | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 4:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Ray | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 5:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Johnson, Lafayette | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 5:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry, Johnson | 60 min |
| Mar 26, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 55 min |
| Mar 26, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 51 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.