Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2000, 1:34 AM CDT for Mercer County, Putnam County, Sullivan County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2000, 1:34 AM CDT (06:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2000, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Mercer County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:37 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 3267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KEAX 080634
SVRMCI
MOC129-171-211-080730-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
134 AM CDT TUE AUG 8 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN MERCER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF UNIONVILLE
SULLIVAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MILAN
* UNTIL 230 AM CDT
* AT 131 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF MILL GROVE...OR ABOUT 19 MILES
NORTH OF TRENTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
HARRIS AT 140 AM CDT
NEWTOWN AT 145 AM CDT
LUCERNE AT 150 AM CDT
POLLOCK AT 205 AM CDT
LEMONS AT 210 AM CDT
UNIONVILLE AT 215 AM CDT
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DIME 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 4039 9360 4031 9361 4027 9337 4007 9331
4008 9299 4061 9275 4059 9363The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 67 min |
| Aug 7, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Johnson | 58 min |
| Aug 7, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 40 min |
| Aug 7, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 67 min |
| Aug 8, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.