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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Kansas City, MO

September 11, 2000Buchanan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 2000, 6:40 PM CDT for Buchanan County, Missouri. It was in force for 65 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: Sep 11, 2000, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Sep 11, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Buchanan County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 11, 6:55 PM CDT	Hail 1	Faucett, MO

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
Sep 11, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 1769 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -404 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 112341
SVRMCI
MOC021-120045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
640 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 640 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER AGENCY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ST
  JOSEPH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LOCATIONS SOUTH OF EASTON AT 645 PM CDT
  DEKALB AT 650 PM CDT
  

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 
OR LARGER...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 3974 9471 3955 9505 3953 9464 3974 9459

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 11, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Nodaway	58 min
Sep 11, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew	61 min
Sep 11, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer	39 min
Sep 11, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess	45 min
Sep 11, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell	56 min
Sep 11, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	51 min
Sep 11, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam, Sullivan	58 min
Sep 11, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer	31 min
Sep 11, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton, DeKalb	65 min
Sep 11, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess	63 min
Sep 11, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Livingston	71 min
Sep 11, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell	60 min
Sep 11, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	74 min
Sep 11, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam, Sullivan	79 min
Sep 11, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Schuyler	79 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.