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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 355, NWS St. Louis, MO

August 7, 2000Boone County, Callaway County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 7:09 AM CDT for Boone County, Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 2000, 7:09 AM CDT (12:09 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2000, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 267 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2000-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 796 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2000-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 155 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
796 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KLSX 071209
SVRSTL
MOC019-027-071300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
709 AM CDT MON AUG 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BOONE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
  CALLAWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 800 AM CDT

* AT 709 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF THE COLUMBIA
  AIRPORT...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
  FULTON

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR tYOUR
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 3897 9225 3879 9231 3867 9168 3887 9165

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 5:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXGasconade, Osage39 min
Aug 7, 5:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBoone, Callaway47 min
Aug 7, 6:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin40 min
Aug 7, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBoone44 min
Aug 7, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXAudrain, Monroe47 min
Aug 7, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXShelby47 min
Aug 7, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCallaway45 min
Aug 7, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXAudrain, Pike, Ralls47 min
Aug 7, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXGasconade, Montgomery48 min
Aug 7, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLincoln59 min
Aug 7, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBoone, Moniteau66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.