Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Kansas City, MO
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 9:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Carrollton, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 64 min |
| Aug 6, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 62 min |
| Aug 6, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 67 min |
| Aug 7, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Clinton | 59 min |
| Aug 7, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Livingston | 57 min |
| Aug 7, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 67 min |
| Aug 7, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Linn | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon, Randolph | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 67 min |
| Aug 7, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 75 min |
| Aug 7, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 66 min |
| Aug 7, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 77 min |
| Aug 7, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 44 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.