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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 26, 2000Jackson County, Missouri

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 26, 5:00 PM CSTThunderstorm WindLees Summit, MOTrees 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 26, 12:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2000-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 2:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison42 min
Mar 26, 2:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXNodaway57 min
Mar 26, 3:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHolt44 min
Mar 26, 3:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte51 min
Mar 26, 3:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon46 min
Mar 26, 3:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Daviess, DeKalb40 min
Mar 26, 3:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClinton40 min
Mar 26, 4:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Jackson42 min
Mar 26, 4:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLivingston47 min
Mar 26, 4:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Johnson, Lafayette41 min
Mar 26, 4:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Carroll, Ray41 min
Mar 26, 5:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis, Saline45 min
Mar 26, 5:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Johnson, Lafayette49 min
Mar 26, 5:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll46 min
Mar 26, 5:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton46 min
Mar 26, 5:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry, Johnson60 min
Mar 26, 5:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis55 min
Mar 26, 5:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper, Howard51 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.