Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 9:44 PM CDT for Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 31 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
- May 23, 2000, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bates County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 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 23, 9:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Passaic, 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
524 WFUS53 KEAX 240248 COR TORMCI MOC013-240315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 947 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000 ...SENT AS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...SHOULD BE TORNADO WARNING IN HEADER... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BATES COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 944 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES EAST OF MERWIN...OR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF BUTLER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ADRIAN AT 950 PM CDT BUTLER AT 1005 PM CDT RICH HILL AT 1015 PM CDT 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 3843 9420 3845 9461 3807 9459 3807 9409 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 44 min |
| May 23, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Bates | 49 min |
| May 24, 3:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 66 min |
| May 24, 4:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Pettis | 42 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.