Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 29, 2000, 6:40 PM CST for Audrain County, Boone County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 min. 2 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
- Feb 29, 2000, 6:40 PM CST (00:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Audrain County, MO, Boone County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 6:45 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Columbia, MO | Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail covering U.S. Highway 63 north of Columbia. |
| Feb 29, 6:52 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Mexico, 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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 010043 SVRSTL MOC007-019-010130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 640 PM CST TUE FEB 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... AUDRAIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI NORTHEASTERN BOONE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT AT 639 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED... CENTRALIA THOMPSON 1 INCH HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED BY COLUMBIA EOC NEAR HALLSVILLE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS DAMAGING HAIL. LARGE HAIL CAN CAUSE EXTENSIVE PROPERTY DAMAGE AN SERIOUS INJURY TO PEOPLE CAUGHT OUTDOORS. MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. RP/MB &
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Ralls | 36 min |
| Feb 29, 7:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Pike | 49 min |
| Feb 29, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 46 min |
| Feb 29, 8:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Washington | 36 min |
| Feb 29, 9:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 33 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.