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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Kansas City, MO

November 1, 2000Leavenworth County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 2000, 12:06 PM CST for Leavenworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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: Nov 1, 2000, 12:06 PM CST (18:06 UTC)
Expired: Nov 1, 2000, 12:45 PM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Leavenworth County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 1, 12:07 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Mc Louth, KS
Nov 1, 12:30 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 57 E	Leavenworth, KS	A severe thunderstorm raced north-northeast through Leavenworth County. Emergency management officials reported downed tree limbs 8 inches in diameter west of Leavenworth.

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 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 49 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: 237 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 011805
SVRMCI
KSC103-011845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1206 PM CST WED NOV 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1245 PM CST

* AT 1206 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF TONGANOXIE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF OSKALOOSA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  JARBALO AT 1210 PM CST
  EASTON KS AT 1215 PM CST
  LANSING AT 1220 PM CST

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 3914 9537 3902 9519 3926 9487 3938 9496
          3941 9514

BUNTING

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.