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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 12:43 AM CDT for Atchison County, Leavenworth County, Kansas; Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 62 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
- May 12, 2000, 12:43 AM CDT (05:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Atchison County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Platte County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
777 WFUS53 KEAX 120543 TORMCI KSC005-103-MOC021-165-120645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1243 AM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ATCHISON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS NORTHWESTERN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS SOUTHERN BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI NORTHERN PLATTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 145 AM CDT * AT 1243 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF WITHROP...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF ATCHISON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WESTON AT 1255 AM CDT DEARBORN AT 105 AM CDT EDGERTON AT 115 AM CDT OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE RUSHVILLE...RIDGELY...FAUCETT AND BEAN LAKE. THIS TORNADO WARNING IS AN UPGRADE TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 LAT...LON 3960 9511 3936 9516 3939 9463 3962 9465 BUNTING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 27 min |
| May 11, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 31 min |
| May 11, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 45 min |
| May 11, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 44 min |
| May 11, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 45 min |
| May 11, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 52 min |
| May 11, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 60 min |
| May 12, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 42 min |
| May 12, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 52 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, 11:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Clay | 50 min |
| May 11, 11:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Jackson | 44 min |
| May 11, 11:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Ray | 42 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 | 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.