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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 2000Johnson County, Pettis County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 9:05 PM CDT for Johnson County, Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 55 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, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Johnson County, MO, Pettis County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 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

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The text

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

793 
WFUS53 KEAX 270206
TORMCI
MOC101-159-270300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PETTIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
  EASTERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 905 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOUSTONIA...OR 13 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF SEDALIA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. FUNNEL CLOUDS HAS 
  ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  LONGWOOD AT 915 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

LAT...LON 3893 9309 3893 9353 3892 9365 3858 9369
          3856 9310

MAXIMUK

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, 8:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Carroll	26 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, 9:15 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

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.