Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 21, 2000, 5:54 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 min. 3 reports 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
- May 21, 2000, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lafayette County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Lexington, MO | A tornado, witnessed by two citizens, destroyed several outbuildings and damaged the roof of an earth-contact home 7 miles southeast of Lexington, MO. |
| May 21, 6:07 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Higginsville, MO | The same supercell storm that produced the tornado southeast of Lexington also produced dime to quarter size hail, which covered the ground in Higginsville. |
| May 21, 6:32 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Higginsville, MO | Highway Patrol officers estimated wind gusts up to 70 mph near mile marker 46 on Interstate 70. |
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 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1217 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
689 WFUS53 KEAX 212255 TORMCI MOC107-212345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 554 PM CDT SUN MAY 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 554 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES EAST OF LEXINGTON...OR 31 MILES NORTH OF WARRENSBURG...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DOVER AT 600 PM CDT HIGGINSVILLE AT 625 PM CDT CONCORDIA AT 645 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 THIS STORM AND DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS LAT...LON 3921 9354 3918 9390 3894 9383 3895 9351
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 40 min |
| May 21, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 52 min |
| May 21, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Mercer, Sullivan | 45 min |
| May 21, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 43 min |
| May 21, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Ray | 52 min |
| May 21, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 53 min |
| May 21, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Livingston | 58 min |
| May 21, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 12 min |
| May 21, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Ray | 59 min |
| May 21, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 54 min |
| May 21, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Livingston | 57 min |
| May 21, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 15 min |
| May 21, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 57 min |
| May 21, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 30 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.