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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 8, 2000Mercer County, Putnam County, Sullivan County, Missouri

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3267 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 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
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

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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 9363

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson67 min
Aug 7, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Johnson58 min
Aug 7, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette62 min
Aug 7, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis40 min
Aug 7, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper67 min
Aug 8, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper, Howard46 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.