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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 259, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 19, 2000Ray County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2000, 11:02 PM CDT for Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 58 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 19, 2000, 11:02 PM CDT (04:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 20, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ray County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 19, 11:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Richmond, MO	Large tree limbs and power lines were downed.
Aug 19, 11:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Wood Hgts, MO	Multiple trees were downed.

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 nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -467 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1388 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 399 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 748 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

439 
WUUS53 KEAX 200402
SVRMCI
MOC177-200500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1102 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 1056 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 6 MILES WEST OF ELMIRA TO 12
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOODS HEIGHTS...OR FROM 31 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  KANSAS CITY TO 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY...MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  VIBBARD AT 1110 PM CDT
  KNOXVILLE AT 1120 PM CDT
  RICHMOND AT 1130 PM CDT
  HENRIETTA AT 1135 PM CDT
  HARDIN AT 1140 PM 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.

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

LAT...LON 3952 9421 3924 9420 3920 9410 3923 9379
          3952 9378

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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 Aug 19, 2:00 PM CDT, 9 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 2:00 PM CDT, 9 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
200 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 2000

MAIN FCST CONCERN IS IN SHORT TERM. STG BAROCLINIC ZONE SETTING UP
ACR CNTRL/ERN KS AS WRMFNT PRESSES SLOWLY ALONG KS/OK BDR. LATEST
SFC ANALYSIS INDICATES GOOD SFC HTG ALONG BOUNDARY WITH MOIST
POOLING ALONG AND JUST NORTH OF FRONT. MCONV ALSO IMPRESSIVE ALONG
BOUNDARY AS DRY AND HOT AIR SURGES NE OUT OF NW OK. HARD TO ARGUE
WITH SPC/HPC AND MODEL GRIDDS WHICH ALL SUGGEST CONVECTIVE
DEVELOPMENT ALONG OR NORTH OF BOUNDARY LATE THIS AFTN OR EVE AND MVG
EAST INTO CWA TNGT.

310K SFC SHOWS IMPRESSIVE ISENT LIFT TNGT AS LLJ VEERS AND
STRENGTHENS. THUNDERSTORMS IN KS XPCTD TO EVOLVE INTO MCS THIS
EVE WITH SFC-3KM SHR PROFILES OF 20-25 M/S SUPPORTIVE OF DAMAGING
WINDS EARLY TNGT...ESP WRN CWA WHERE INSTABILITY THE GREATEST.
SEVERE THREAT TO DIMINISH AS MCS MOVES EAST THROUGH CWA AS COMPLEX
ENCOUNTERS COOLER BOUNDARY TEMPS. HOWEVER...ELEVATED INSTABILITY AND
STG ISENT LIFT TO KEEP THREAT OF TRW HIGH THROUGH NGT ACR MUCH OF
CWA.

MCS TO EXIT MUCH OF AT LEAST WRN CWA BY SUN AM. ISENT LIFT TO WEAKEN
CONSIDERABLY BY DAYBREAK WITH TEMPS...CLD CVR AND AFTERNOON
REDEVELOPMENT A CONCERN SUNDAY AFTN. IT IS LIKELY THAT A STRATUS
LAYER WL DEVELOP IN WAKE OF MCS LATE TNGT IN COOL BOUNDARY LAYER.
MCS OUTFLO MAY TEMPORARILY PUSH FNT A LTL SOUTH TNGT...AND WITH COOL
EAST WINDS AND WET GROUND...STRATUS MAY LINGER MUCH OF DAY IN NRN
ZONES WITH PARTIAL SUNSHINE NOT ARRIVING IN SRN ZONES TL AFTN.
THEREFORE...WL KEEP TEMPS RELATIVELY COOL...CLOSE TO CURRENT ZONES
AND FAN/FWC TEMPS.

CANT RULE OUT DEVELOPMENT ALONG WRMFNT SUN AFTN...BUT CHCS LOOK
SMALL WITH COOL TEMPS AND INCREASING CAP. HOWEVER...ANY WK MONSOONAL
SHRTWV ROTATING AROUND PERIPHERY OF RDG MAY TRIGGER A FEW RW/TRW...
HIGH BASED OR OTHERWISE.

AVN/ETA SIMILIAR IN SLO NWD MVMENT OF FNT SUN NGT AND MON IN ADVANCE
OF NEXT FNT DROPPING SE ACR NRN PLAINS. TEMPS TO JUMP ON MON AS
WRMFNT MOVES INTO NRN MO. TEMPS TRICKY ESP SINCE AIR MASS WARMING
NICELY IN SRN ARK AND OK. HOWEVER...WITH SFC LO IN WRN KS...SFC
WINDS SHOULD HAVE EASTERLY COMPONENT WHICH SHOULD KEEP TEMPS IN
CHECK. WL ALSO MAINTAIN LOW POPS WITH FNT AND WK SHRTWVS IN
VICINITY.

IN THE EXTENDED...WL KEEP POPS TUES AND WED WITH FNT IN AREA. TRICKY
NW FLO TO LINGER THROUGH FRI...BUT WL NOT INTRODUCE POPS PAST
WEDNESDAY AT THIS TIME.

.EAX...NONE.

DB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 19, 10:04 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1004 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 2000

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

0925 PM    3 S DENTON                KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/19/00   DONIPHAN                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	59 min
Aug 19, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	65 min
Aug 19, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	61 min
Aug 19, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Clinton	66 min
Aug 19, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	59 min
Aug 20, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	45 min
Aug 20, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2000 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.