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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 20, 2000Carroll County, Lafayette County, Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2000, 4:46 PM CDT for Carroll County, Lafayette County, Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 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: Jun 20, 2000, 4:46 PM CDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Carroll County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Saline County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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, 5:00 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Wakenda, MO

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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 264 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.

696 
WFUS53 KEAX 202147
TORMCI
MOC033-107-195-202230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
  SOUTHEASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
  NORTHEASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 446 PM CDT...A TORNADO REPORTED ON THE GROUND JUST OF WEST 
  OF WAVERLY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. 
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GRAND PASS AT 455 PM CDT
  MALTA BEND AT 505 PM CDT
  MIAMI AT 520 PM CDT

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 3931 9366 3913 9368 3913 9314 3941 9314

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, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette	26 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.