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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 20, 2000Carroll County, Lafayette County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2000, 4:19 PM CDT for Carroll County, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was in force for 26 min. 2 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: Jun 20, 2000, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, MO, Lafayette County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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
Jun 20, 4:22 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Lexington, MO	A law enforcement officer reported that the tornado touched down just southeast of Lexington and moved east for 1 mile. Trees and power lines were downed.
Jun 20, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Carrollton, MO	Two citizens reported that a tornado touched down briefly in open bottomland, and moved east 1 mile. The tornado lifted after approximately two minutes on the ground, without doing any damage.

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
Jun 20, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 261 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: 460 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 876 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 263 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.0

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The text

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

122 
WFUS53 KEAX 202120
TORMCI
MOC033-107-202145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
419 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI 
  NORTHEASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 419 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF DOVER...OR 31 MILES NORTH OF
  WARRENSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  DOVER AT 425 PM CDT
  NORBORNE AT 435 PM CDT
  CARROLLTON AT 445 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
Jun 20, 4:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	6 hr
Jun 20, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette, Saline	44 min
Jun 20, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Johnson	85 min
Jun 20, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	52 min
Jun 20, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Randolph	25 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.