Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 372, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 8:14 PM CDT for Gasconade County, Montgomery County, Osage County, Missouri. It was in force for 61 min. 3 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
- Aug 7, 2000, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gasconade County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Osage County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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, 8:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Linn, MO | Local law enforcement reported trees down on Highway U between Linn and Rich Fountain. |
| Aug 7, 8:38 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 E | Rhineland, MO | Local law enforcement reported trees down. |
| Aug 7, 9:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 53 E | Chamois, MO | Trees were blown down in and around Chamois blocking several county roads. |
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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 2405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLSX 080115 SVRSTL MOC073-139-151-080215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 814 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OSAGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI GASCONADE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 814 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MINEOLA TO 10 MILES WEST OF HERMANN TO NEAR LINN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... NEW FLORENCE BUELL BELLFLOWER HERMANN LINN DRAKE THE PRIMARY THREAT POSED BY THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS. MOVE QUICKLY TO THE INTERIOR PORTION OF A STURDY SHELTER...AND STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANC)E WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Warren | 57 min |
| Aug 7, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 57 min |
| Aug 7, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway, Cole | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Warren | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 10:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway, Moniteau | 5 hr |
| Aug 7, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Moniteau | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade, Montgomery | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 1:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway, Moniteau | 5 hr |
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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.