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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 11, 2000Lafayette County, Ray County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2000, 11:48 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 2000, 11:48 PM CDT (04:48 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lafayette County, MO, Ray County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:52 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
May 11, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 4491 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1450 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.3
Supercell composite: 30.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KEAX 120450
TORMCI
MOC107-177-120530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1148 PM CDT THU MAY 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI   
  RAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1148 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 4 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF MISSOURI CITY...OR 17 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY... 
  MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED DAMAGE IN THE 
  KANSAS CITY METRO AREA.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WOODS HEIGHTS AT 1155 PM CDT
  ORRICK AT MIDNIGHT CDT
  CAMDEN AT 1205 AM CDT
  RICHMOND AT 1210 AM CDT
  HENRIETTA AT 1215 AM CDT
  LEXINGTON AT 1220 AM CDT

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE WELLINGTON...REGAL AND
HARDIN.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO THREAT...THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS OF 75 MPH AND GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS TO A CENTER LOCATION
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO THE
PATH OF THIS STORM AND NDO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS!

BUNTING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	45 min
May 11, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clinton, Platte	49 min
May 11, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	58 min
May 11, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	64 min
May 11, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	60 min
May 11, 11:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Clay	50 min
May 11, 11:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Jackson	44 min
May 12, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	39 min
May 12, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clinton	51 min
May 12, 12:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Platte	62 min
May 12, 12:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Buchanan	62 min
May 12, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	41 min
May 12, 1:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	60 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.