Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000

Tornado Warning 17, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 23, 2000Atchison County, Holt County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2000, 6:53 PM CDT for Atchison County, Holt County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 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 23, 2000, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Atchison County, MO, Holt County, MO

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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 23, 7:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Langdon, MO
Jun 23, 7:35 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Nishnabotna, 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 23, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 3049 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

125 
WFUS53 KEAX 232358 COR
TORMCI
MOC005-087-240030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
657 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN ATCHISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
  NORTHERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 653 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS NEAR NEMAHA NEBRASKA REPORTED 
  A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEMAHA NEBRASKA MOVING EAST AT      
  20MPH. THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO CROSS INTERSTATE 29 BETWEEN MILE
  MARKERS 90 AND 107 BY 710 PM.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CORNING AT 725 PM CDT
  CRAIG AT 730 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 23, 12:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway	67 min
Jun 23, 12:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Worth	66 min
Jun 23, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison	61 min
Jun 23, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Mercer	65 min
Jun 23, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	62 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 2000 Every tornado warning in 2000 Tornadoes in 2000

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.