Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2000, 5:49 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 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
- Jul 18, 2000, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Montgomery County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Bellflower, MO | A tornado struck eastern Montgomery County causing damage at a farm and downing trees and power lines. The tornado first caused damage at a farm on Leonard Road which was also where the most extensive damage occurred. A large garage lost both doors and half o |
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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 1400 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLSX 182250 SVRSTL MOC139-182330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 549 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 549 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BUELL...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... MONTGOMERY CITY RURAL NORTHEASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION 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. LAT...LON 3914 9164 3881 9165 3885 9127 3914 9126 RP/FG
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Pike | 48 min |
| Jul 18, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Jul 18, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Warren | 50 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.