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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 26, 2000Nodaway County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 2:33 PM CST for Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 57 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
Mar 26, 2000, 2:33 PM CST (20:33 UTC)
Expired
Mar 26, 2000, 3:30 PM CST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Nodaway County, MO

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 26, 2:48 PM CSTHail 0.88Burlington Jct, MO
Mar 26, 3:13 PM CSTHail 0.75Maryville, 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 164 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 198 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1828 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 262034
SVRMCI
MOC147-262130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
233 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NODAWAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 330 PM CST

* AT 233 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF QUITMAN...OR 15 MILES EAST OF
  ROCKPORT...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BURLINGTON JCT AT 240 PM CST
  QUITMAN AT 245 PM CST
  MARYVILLE AT 300 PM CST
  ARKOE AT 305 PM CST
  CONCEPTION AT 315 PM CST
  CLYDE AT 320 PM CST

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SKIDMORE AND RAVENWOOD.

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. REMEMBERl...LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ALL
THUNDERSTORMS. HEAVY RAINS CAN CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING
AREAS.

BB/SF

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 2:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison42 min
Mar 26, 3:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHolt44 min
Mar 26, 3:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte51 min
Mar 26, 3:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon46 min
Mar 26, 3:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Daviess, DeKalb40 min
Mar 26, 3:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClinton40 min
Mar 26, 4:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Jackson42 min
Mar 26, 4:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLivingston47 min
Mar 26, 4:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Johnson, Lafayette41 min
Mar 26, 4:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Carroll, Ray41 min
Mar 26, 4:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson43 min
Mar 26, 5:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis, Saline45 min
Mar 26, 5:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Johnson, Lafayette49 min
Mar 26, 5:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll46 min
Mar 26, 5:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton46 min
Mar 26, 5:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry, Johnson60 min
Mar 26, 5:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis55 min
Mar 26, 5:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper, Howard51 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.