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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 26, 2000Bates County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2000, 6:14 PM CDT for Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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 26, 2000, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bates County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 26, 6:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 57 E	Foster, MO	Tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter were downed, and a 12x12 foot shed was damaged.

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 26, 5:00 PM CDT	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 147 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: 115 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -324 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 262314
SVRMCI
MOC013-270000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
614 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BATES COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BUTLER

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 606 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUTLER...MOVING
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...BUTLER BY 620 PM AND
RURAL SOUTHEASTERN BATES COUNTY AT 630 PM CDT

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL...AND
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 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 3806 9410 3808 9455 3840 9459 3845 9409

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 2:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll	42 min
Aug 26, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	46 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.