Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2000, 9:38 PM CDT for Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2000, 9:38 PM CDT (02:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pettis County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 10:01 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Green Ridge, 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KEAX 090238 SVRMCI MOC159-090330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 938 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PETTIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SEDALIA * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 934 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF GREEN RIDGE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WARRENSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OVER GREEN RIDGE...9 MILES SOUTH OF LA MONTE AT 945 PM CDT 7 MILES SOUTH OF DRESDEN AT 950 PM CDT 3 MILES SOUTH OF SEDALIA AT 1000 PM CDT * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE LONGWOOD...HUGHESVILLE AND HOUSTONIA. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. F>OR 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. JM
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, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 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.