Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2000, 10:38 PM CDT for Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2000, 10:38 PM CDT (03:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2000, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moniteau County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:39 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 8, 10:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Fortuna, MO | The sheriff department reported damage to the roof of a school in Fortuna. Trees and power lines were also downed in the area. |
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 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLSX 090339 SVRSTL MOC135-090415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1038 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONITEAU COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 1036 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM CALIFORNIA TO TIPTON... MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED... CALIFORNIA TIPTON JAMESTOWN LATHAM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DAMAGING HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THU4NDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. MB/GKS/RP
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 8, 3:36 PM CDT, 7 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 3:36 PM CDT, 7 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 335 PM MON MAY 8 2000 WL KP DISC SHORT WITH SVR WX PENDING. MAIN PROBS TO BE ONSET AND PLACEMENT OF TSRA THIS EVE AND TUE. STG MIDLVL CAP IN PLACE ATTIM AND QUES IS EXACTLY WHEN IT WILL BREAK. XPCT FIRST CNVCTV DVLPMT IN NRN ZNS CLOSEST TO FNT AND THEN SPRD S ALG WITH SWD MVMT OF CFNT. SGT DYNAMICS IN PLACE FOR BOTH SVR ACTVTY OVR NE MO TNGT AND HVY PCPN EVENT ON TUE. PWS IN EXCESS OF 1.5 IN OVR NRN ZNS FM THIS AFTN INTO TUE AFTN. FFG PRETTY HI FOR CYS IN NRN ZNS SO WL HOLD OFF ANY FLASH FLOOD WATCHES BUT NXT SHIFTS WL HAVE TO MONITOR. MDLS HV CFNT CFNT MOVG INTO CTRL MO BY MDNGT TNGT AND THEN STALLING AND ADVCTG BACK N ON TUE AS WRM FNT. HVIEST PCPN TO BE TO N OF FNT WITH STG OVRRNG AND CFNT COMING BACK THRU RGN LT TUE AS SFC LO MVS NE. MDL TEMPS SHW COOLER TREND ON TUE FM PREV GUID AND HV ACCEPTED DUE TO CLDS AND PCPN. WL GO LIKELY IN SERN ZNS ON TUE AND CATEGORICAL IN WRN AND NRN ZNS VCNTY OF CFNT. .STL...NONE. WDB
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, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike, Ralls | 52 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.