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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 23, 2000Holt County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT for Holt County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 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: Jun 23, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Holt County, MO

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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
Jun 23, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 3505 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1240 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 15.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KEAX 240030
TORMCI
MOC087-240115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 659 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 2 MILES          
  SOUTHWEST OF NEMAHA OF   CORNING...OR 12 MILES SOUTH OF            
  ROCKPORT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CORNING AT 740 PM CDT
  CRAIG AT 750 PM CDT
  MOUND CITY AT 815 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 YAWAY FROM
WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT DRIVE INTO THIS STORM AND DO NOT SEEK
SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS!

LAT...LON 4028 9575 4015 9558 4007 9511 4026 9516

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	56 min
Jun 23, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	42 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.