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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 2000Nodaway County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 5:57 PM CDT for Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2000, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Nodaway County, MO

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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.

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 26, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 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 
WFUS53 KEAX 262257
TORMCI
MOC147-262330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
557 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NODAWAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 557 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR             
  MARYVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PICKERING AT 605 PM CDT
  RAVENWOOD AT 610 PM CDT

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
NOT BE OCCURRING WHEN THE WARNING IS ISSUED...BUT ONE IS EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE
INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT DRIVE INTO THIS STORM AND DO NOT SEEK
SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS!

STORM SPOTTERS HAVE CONFIRMED A TORNADO WITH THIS STORM! IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A
HOME OR OTHER BUILDING...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND OUTER WALLS.
DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER HIGHWAY OVERPASSES!

LAT...LON 4029 9516 4023 9481 4015 9467 4057 9468
          4055 9516

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	43 min
May 26, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Nodaway	41 min
May 26, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	46 min
May 26, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	66 min
May 26, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry	62 min
May 26, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Worth	57 min
May 26, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton, DeKalb	41 min
May 26, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.