Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT for Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 75 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 7, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 75 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pettis County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:13 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | La Monte, MO | |
| Aug 7, 6:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Sedalia, MO | Emergency managers reported 75 mph winds and numerous downed trees. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 1219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
597 WUUS53 KEAX 072300 SVRMCI MOC159-080015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 600 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PETTIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SEDALIA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 556 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES WEST OF LA MONTE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF WARRENSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DRESDEN AT 620 PM CDT HOUSTONIA AT 630 PM CDT LONGWOOD AT 640 PM CDT 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. LAT...LON 3894 9352 3855 9350 3855 9309 3893 9307
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 64 min |
| Aug 6, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 62 min |
| Aug 6, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 62 min |
| Aug 6, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Carroll | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 67 min |
| Aug 7, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Clinton | 59 min |
| Aug 7, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Livingston | 57 min |
| Aug 7, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 67 min |
| Aug 7, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Linn | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon, Randolph | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 67 min |
| Aug 7, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 66 min |
| Aug 7, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 77 min |
| Aug 7, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 44 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.