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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 8, 2000Henry County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2000, 9:08 PM CDT for Henry County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 min. 3 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: May 8, 2000, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Henry County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 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
May 8, 9:25 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Clinton, MO
May 8, 9:27 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Warrensburg, MO
May 8, 9:29 PM CDT	Hail 1	Shawnee Mound, 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
May 8, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 414 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 090208
SVRMCI
MOC083-101-107-090300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
908 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HENRY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CLINTON
  JOHNSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WARRENSBURG
  SOUTHERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 904 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM COLUMBUS TO LA DUE...OR FROM 8
  MILES NORTHWEST OF WARRENSBURG TO 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF APPLETON
  CITY...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  OVER CLINTON...LEETON...LEWIS AT 915 PM CDT
  OVER COAL...CALHOUN...KNOB NOSTER...WHITEMAN AFB AT 920 PM CDT

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE URICH...SHAWNEE MOUND...
  PITTSVILLE...HOLDEN...FAYETTEVILLE...DEEPWATER...CHILHOWEE...
  CENTERVIEW AND BLAIRSTOWN.

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.

LAT...LON 3894 9411 3827 9404 3824 9386 3825 9357
          3893 9353

JJM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair	26 min
May 8, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	51 min
May 8, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette	52 min
May 8, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	52 min
May 8, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.