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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 389, NWS St. Louis, MO

August 17, 2000Callaway County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2000, 6:48 PM CDT for Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 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 17, 2000, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Callaway County, MO

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 17, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 316 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2000-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 451 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2000-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -39 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
451 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-284 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2093 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 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 172348
SVRSTL
MOC027-180030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
648 PM CDT THU AUG 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 648 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW BLOOMFIELD...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
  NEW BLOOMFIELD
  FULTON
  WILLIAMSBURG

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTE[CTION 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 3892 9216 3865 9223 3873 9167 3906 9171

TRUETT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLewis44 min
Aug 17, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMoniteau51 min
Aug 17, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBoone, Cole42 min
Aug 17, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLewis, Marion52 min
Aug 17, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMoniteau26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.