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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 12, 2000Andrew County, Buchanan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 1:45 AM CDT for Andrew County, Buchanan County, Missouri. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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 12, 2000, 1:45 AM CDT (06:45 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2000, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:47 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 12, 1:50 AM CDT	Hail 1	St Joseph, 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 12, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 120644
SVRMCI
MOC003-021-120745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
145 AM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN ANDREW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
  NORTHERN BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ST JOSEPH

* UNTIL 245 AM CDT

* AT 145 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WATHENA...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF ST
  JOSEPH...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  3 MILES NORTH OF ST JOSEPH...6 MILES SOUTH OF AMAZONIA AT 150 AM
  CDT
  4 MILES SOUTH OF AVENUE CITY...8 MILES SOUTH OF SAVANNAH AT 200 AM
  CDT
  OVER COSBY...4 MILES SOUTH OF ROCHESTER AT 205 AM CDT

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ELWOOD.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL
SIZE...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 LYI@NG
AREAS.

LAT...LON 3984 9511 3967 9503 3973 9462 4009 9463

BUNTING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	45 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, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	60 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	Platte	62 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

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.