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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 6, 2000Carroll County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Aug 6, 2000, 9:14 PM CDT for Carroll County, Missouri. It was in force for 26 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
Aug 6, 2000, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 2000, 9:40 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Carroll County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 6, 9:20 PM CDTHail 1Carrollton, 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 nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2000-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2124 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2000-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KEAX 070214
TORMCI

MOC033-070240-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
914 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 940 PM CDT

* AT 914 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES NORTH OF CARROLLTON...OR 25 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF MARSHALL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BOSWORTH AT 920 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 TH"IS STORM AND DO NOT SEEK
SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS!

LAT...LON 3959 9375 3925 9375 3937 9325 3959 9334

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton64 min
Aug 6, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell62 min
Aug 6, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll62 min
Aug 7, 1:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Jackson63 min
Aug 7, 2:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXRay67 min
Aug 7, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Clinton59 min
Aug 7, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll63 min
Aug 7, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLivingston57 min
Aug 7, 4:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSaline67 min
Aug 7, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton, Linn64 min
Aug 7, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates, Cass60 min
Aug 7, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper47 min
Aug 7, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon, Randolph49 min
Aug 7, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson67 min
Aug 7, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis75 min
Aug 7, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry33 min
Aug 7, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSaline66 min
Aug 7, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper77 min
Aug 7, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHoward44 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.