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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 2000Johnson County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 9:25 PM CDT for Johnson County, Missouri. It was in force for 65 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 26, 2000, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Johnson County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:26 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, 9:32 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Holden, MO	A storm spotter with the Holden Fire Department observed a tornado 7 miles south of Holden that remained on the ground for two minutes, moving northeast. Several trees and power lines were downed by the storm.

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, 2.4 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: 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.

986 
WFUS53 KEAX 270225
TORMCI
MOC101-270330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 925 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER HOLDEN...OR 14 MILES WEST OF WARRENSBURG...
  MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CENTERVIEW AT 930 PM CDT
  LEETON AT 940 PM CDT
  KNOB NOSTER AT 950 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 3891 9353 3891 9397 3890 9409 3858 9410
          3855 9354

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, 9:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	55 min
May 26, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	60 min
May 26, 9:45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.