Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2000, 8:38 PM CDT for Pike County, Ralls County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 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 8, 2000, 8:38 PM CDT (01:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO
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 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 2720 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1120 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLSX 090139 SVRSTL MOC163-173-090230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 838 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN PIKE COUNTY MISSOURI IN NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI SOUTHERN RALLS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 836 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF VANDALIA... MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED... CURRYVILLE SPENCERBURG NEW HARTFORD THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS DAMAGING HAIL. LARGE HAIL CAN CAUSE EXTENSIVE PROPERTY DAMAGE AN SERIOUS INJURY TO PEOPLE CAUGHT OUTDOORS. MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. MB/GKS/RP
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 52 min |
| May 8, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain | 48 min |
| May 8, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 38 min |
| May 8, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 50 min |
| May 8, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Callaway | 52 min |
| May 8, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Moniteau | 48 min |
| May 8, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis | 53 min |
| May 8, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Cole | 39 min |
| May 8, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 50 min |
| May 8, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 48 min |
| May 8, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Moniteau | 37 min |
| May 8, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 44 min |
| May 9, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Moniteau | 46 min |
| May 9, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Cole | 44 min |
| May 9, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade | 34 min |
| May 9, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Warren | 41 min |
| May 9, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 36 min |
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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.