Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT for Atchison County, Kansas; Buchanan County, Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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 11, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Atchison County, KS, Buchanan County, MO, Platte County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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 11, 8:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Rushville, MO | |
| May 11, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Faucett, 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 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 4491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1450 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 30.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
869 WUUS53 KEAX 120115 SVRMCI KSC005-MOC021-165-120200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 815 PM CDT THU MAY 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN ATCHISON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ATCHISON BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ST JOSEPH NORTHERN PLATTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 810 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ATCHISON...OR ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF ATCHISON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OVER ATCHISON AT 830 PM CDT OVER WITHROP AT 845 PM CDT 4 MILES WEST OF RUSHVILLE...7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEAN LAKE AT 900 PM CDT * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FAUCETT...EDGERTON... DEARBORN...AGENCY...LANCASTER KS AND CUMMINGS. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE GOLF BALL 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 27 min |
| May 11, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 31 min |
| May 11, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 44 min |
| May 11, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 45 min |
| May 11, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 52 min |
| May 11, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 60 min |
| May 12, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 42 min |
| May 12, 12:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Atchison, Leavenworth | 62 min |
| May 12, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 52 min |
| May 11, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Clinton, Platte | 49 min |
| May 11, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 58 min |
| May 11, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 64 min |
| May 11, 11:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Clay | 50 min |
| May 11, 11:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Jackson | 44 min |
| May 11, 11:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Ray | 42 min |
| May 12, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Platte | 39 min |
| May 12, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton | 51 min |
| May 12, 12:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 62 min |
| May 12, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 41 min |
| May 12, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan | 60 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.