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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Kansas City, MO

February 29, 2000Daviess County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 29, 2000, 2:31 PM CST for Daviess County, Missouri. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 29, 2000, 2:31 PM CST (20:31 UTC)
Expired: Feb 29, 2000, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Daviess County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1450 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 625 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 554 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.

641 
WUUS53 KEAX 292031
SVRMCI
MOC049-061-063-292130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
231 PM CST TUE FEB 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CLINTON COUNTY IN MISSOURI
  DAVIESS COUNTY IN MISSOURI
  SOUTHEASTERN DEKALB COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 330 PM CST

* AT 231 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF PLATTSBURG...OR 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  ST JOSEPH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  TURNEY AT 240 PM CST
  CAMERON AT 250 PM CST
  WINSTON AT 305 PM CST
  ALTAMONT AT 310 PM CST
  JAMESON AT 325 PM CST

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PERRIN...OSBORN...LATHROP AND
GALLATIN.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE QUARTER 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.

MB/BB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 29, 2:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton, DeKalb	59 min
Feb 29, 2:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	53 min
Feb 29, 2:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	61 min
Feb 29, 4:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.