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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 26, 2000Cass County, Johnson County, Lafayette County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 5:11 PM CST for Cass County, Johnson County, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 min. 9 reports 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: Mar 26, 2000, 5:11 PM CST (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cass County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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, 5:15 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Pleasant Hill, MO
Mar 26, 5:20 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Chapel Hill, MO
Mar 26, 5:20 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Pittsville, MO
Mar 26, 5:23 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Elm, MO	Emergency management officials reported 75 mph wind gusts near Elm.
Mar 26, 5:23 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Elm, MO
Mar 26, 5:48 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Warrensburg, MO
Mar 26, 5:51 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Chilhowee, MO
Mar 26, 5:52 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Holden, MO
Mar 26, 6:02 PM CST	Hail 2.5	Leeton, 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 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
Mar 26, 4:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 262313
SVRMCI
MOC037-101-107-270000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
511 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CASS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  JOHNSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 600 PM CST

* AT 511 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM PLEASANT HILL TO
  TO PITTSVILLE TO LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  COLUMBUS AT 520 PM CST
  FAYETTEVILLE AT 525 PM CST
  CENTERVIEW AT 535 PM CST
  LA TOUR AT 540 PM CST
  KNOB NOSTER AT 550 PM CST


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.

HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY
MAY BE WASHED OUT. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO
RISE...THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS.


BB/SF

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 26, 2:15 PM CST, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 2:15 PM CST, 2 hours 56 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
215 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

MAIN CONCERN IS WHEN PRECIP WILL END THIS EVE. TSTM ACTVTY WL END
WITH FROPA SO WL LV PRECIP OUT OF NW AND W ZNS AND LV CHC TSTMS ERN
AND SE ZNS THIS EVE. WL CARRY WATCH HDLINE IN ZNS EVEN THO IT
EXPIRES AT BGNG OF FCST PD. SOME OF THE SVR ACTVTY MAY LAST INTO EVE
PD IN ERN ZNS.  AFT THAT CLEARING AND COOLER TNGT. WL GO NR
GUIDANCE. ALL MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT THRU 48 HOURS. DRY UNTIL WED.
GUID MAXS LOOK OK...MINS MAY BE A BIT ON THE WRM SIDE. MUCH MODEL
DISAGREEMENT FOR LAST HALF OF WK. THRFR WL NOT CHNG CURRENT
EXTENDED. WIL PUT IN CHC OF PRECIP ON SAT...BUT THIS IS FAR FROM A
SURE THING.

.EAX...NONE.

MAXIMUK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 26, 2:50 PM CST, 2 hours 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
250 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY[ LOCATION....

0248 PM    4 W BURLINGTON JCT        MO   .88 INCH HAIL
03/26/00   NODAWAY                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Mar 26, 3:09 PM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
309 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTYZ LOCATION....

0305 PM    FARMINGTON                KS   .75 INCH HAIL
03/26/00   ATCHISON                       REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

Local storm report, Mar 26, 4:15 PM CST, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
415 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0350 PM    CAMERON                   MO   .88 INCH HAIL
03/26/00   CLINTON

0358 PM    KANSAS CITY               KS   .75 INCH HAIL
03/26/00   WYANDOTTE

0403 PM    AMITY                     MO   .88 INCH HAIL
03/26/00   DE KALB

0406 PM    3 SE (MCI)KS CITY INTL AR MO   .88 INCH HAIL
03/26/00   PLATTE

0408 PM    PLATTE WOODS              MO   .75 INCH HAIL
03/26/00   PLATTE

0408 PM    SMITHVILLE                MO   .75 INCH HAIL
03/26/00   CLAY

Local storm report, Mar 26, 4:24 PM CST, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
424 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0411 PM    KANSAS CITY               KS   1.5 INCH HAIL
03/26/00   WYANDOTTE

0415 PM    OLATHE                    KS   .75 INCH HAIL
03/26/00   JOHNSON

0420 PM    KANSAS CITY               MO   .75 INCH HAIL
03/26/00 I  JACKSON

Local storm report, Mar 26, 4:27 PM CST, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
427 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0425 PM    RAYTOWN                   MO   1 INCH HAIL
03/26/00   JACKSON

Local storm report, Mar 26, 4:42 PM CST, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
442 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0441 PM    LEES SUMMIT               MO   1 INCH HAIL
03/26/00   JACKSON

0441 PM    LEES SUMMIT               MO   .88 INCH HAIL
03/26/00   JACKSON

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, 4:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	43 min
Mar 26, 5:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis, Saline	45 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.