Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 359, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT for Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 7, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Callaway County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:24 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Fulton, MO | |
| Aug 7, 6:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Fulton Arpt, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 275 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLSX 072300 SVRSTL MOC027-072345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 600 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CALLAWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 600 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF FULTON...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... AUXVASSE SHAMROCK WILLIAMSBURG FULTON 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 3899 9215 3872 9212 3872 9166 3908 9166 FG
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 5:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade, Osage | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 5:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 6:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 40 min |
| Aug 7, 7:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Monroe | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Shelby | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Pike, Ralls | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade, Montgomery | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 59 min |
| Aug 7, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Moniteau | 66 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.