Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 8:19 PM CDT for Carroll County, Missouri. It was in force for 26 min. 3 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 26, 2000, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Norborne, MO | |
| May 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Norborne, MO | Carroll County Emergency Management reported a tornado in open fields 4 miles south of Norborne. The tornado moved northeast for 2.5 miles, and trees and power lines were downed along its path. |
| May 26, 8:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Carrollton, MO | Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a home east of Carrollton. |
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 26, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
116 WFUS53 KEAX 270121 TORMCI MOC033-270145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 819 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 819 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORBORNE...OR 30 MILES WEST OF MARSHALL...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NORBORNE AT 825 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 53 min |
| May 26, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Daviess | 62 min |
| May 26, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 51 min |
| May 26, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 54 min |
| May 26, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 66 min |
| May 26, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Livingston | 64 min |
| May 26, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 46 min |
| May 26, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 67 min |
| May 26, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 60 min |
| May 26, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 55 min |
| May 26, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 39 min |
| May 26, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Putnam, Schuyler | 57 min |
| May 26, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Sullivan | 57 min |
| May 26, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 67 min |
| May 26, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon, Randolph | 51 min |
| May 26, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Johnson | 45 min |
| May 26, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 55 min |
| May 26, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 60 min |
| May 26, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 65 min |
| May 26, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 60 min |
| May 26, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 62 min |
| May 26, 10:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Pettis | 3 hr |
| May 26, 10:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 3 hr |
| May 26, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 57 min |
| May 27, 1:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Pettis | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 46 min |
| May 27, 3:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 48 min |
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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.