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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS St. Louis, MO

March 26, 2000Cole County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 2:10 PM CST for Cole County, Missouri. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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: Mar 26, 2000, 2:10 PM CST (20:10 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2000, 3:15 PM CST
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Cole County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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
Mar 26, 2:35 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Jefferson City, MO
Mar 26, 2:38 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Jefferson City, 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 223 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -239 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 262012
SVRSTL
MOC051-262115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
210 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 315 PM CST

* AT 208 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LOHMAN MISSOURI... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED...
  JEFFERSON CITY
  ELSTON
  WARDSVILLE

GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN LOHMAN AROUND 205 PM CST

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING HAIL. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.


SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH...DAMAGING HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE
TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.@

PEDIGO
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The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 2:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone, Callaway	46 min
Mar 26, 2:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Osage	48 min
Mar 26, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Callaway, Montgomery	49 min
Mar 26, 3:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Osage	39 min
Mar 26, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lewis	51 min
Mar 26, 3:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Shelby	65 min
Mar 26, 4:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Marion	55 min
Mar 26, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Ralls	52 min
Mar 26, 4:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain, Callaway	58 min
Mar 26, 4:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe, Shelby	50 min
Mar 26, 5:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Ralls	49 min
Mar 26, 5:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	60 min
Mar 26, 5:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone, Callaway	61 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.