Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 29, 2000, 2:37 PM CST for Atchison County, Holt County, Missouri. It was in force for 53 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
- Feb 29, 2000, 2:37 PM CST (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2000, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Atchison County, MO, Holt County, MO
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 2:59 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Tarkio, MO | |
| Feb 29, 3:00 PM CST | Hail 1 | Corning, 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 nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 134 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1750 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KEAX 292038
SVRMCI
MOC005-087-292130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
237 PM CST TUE FEB 29 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ATCHISON COUNTY IN MISSOURI
NORTHWESTERN HOLT COUNTY IN MISSOURI
* UNTIL 330 PM CST
* AT 237 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CORNING...OR 8 MILES NORTH OF
FALLS CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
CORNING AT 250 PM CST
FAIRFAX AT 310 PM CST
TARKIO AT 325 PM CST
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CRAIG.
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN
DIAMETER...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 4016 9572 4006 9553 4031 9521 4057 9523
4059 9565
PBThe 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, 2:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 59 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 |
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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.