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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 19, 2000Lafayette County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2000, 9:21 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Missouri. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Apr 19, 2000, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lafayette County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 19, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Apr 19, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2000-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1072 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2000-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 130 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1072 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
282 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
6.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 200222
SVRMCI
MOC107-200315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
921 PM CDT WED APR 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 921 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9
  MILES WEST OF BATES CITY...OR 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ODESSA AT 930 PM CDT
  WELLINGTON AT 935 PM CDT
  MAYVIEW AT 940 PM CDT
  HIGGINSVILLE AT 945 PM CDT
  DOVER AT 950 PM CDT
  WAVERLY AT 1000 PM CDT

.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL
SIZE...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 3913 9410 3894 9410 3898 9352 3923 9352
MAXIMUK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBuchanan, Platte42 min
Apr 19, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDaviess, DeKalb67 min
Apr 19, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBuchanan, Clinton59 min
Apr 19, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson38 min
Apr 19, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDaviess, Grundy, Harrison61 min
Apr 19, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass56 min
Apr 19, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson39 min
Apr 19, 9:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMercer, Putnam, Sullivan64 min
Apr 19, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGrundy, Sullivan46 min
Apr 19, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll, Saline56 min
Apr 19, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette26 min
Apr 19, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair, Sullivan65 min
Apr 19, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSchuyler49 min
Apr 19, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll28 min
Apr 19, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte36 min
Apr 19, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBuchanan48 min
Apr 19, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, DeKalb49 min
Apr 20, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry, Harrison80 min
Apr 20, 1:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline71 min
Apr 20, 1:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMercer48 min
Apr 20, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2000Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.