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Tornado Warning 23, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 26, 2000Monroe County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 9:53 PM CDT for Monroe County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report 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: May 26, 2000, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Monroe County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:53 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
May 26, 10:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Monroe City, MO	Law enforcement officials reported trees down across Route N south of Monroe City.

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
May 26, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 257 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 306 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 839 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.

418 
WFUS53 KLSX 270254
TORSTL
MOC137-270330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
953 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 953 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO
  OVER GRANVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
  STOUTSVILLE
  INDIAN CREEK
  MONROE CITY
  MARK TWAIN LAKE 

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW A BASEMENT
OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...MOVE TO
THE LOWEST FLOOR AND SEEK SHELTER IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. STAY AWAY
FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED IN
FAVOR OF A MORE SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE. DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO
IN A VEHICLE.

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO
TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS.
ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A
DITCH OR CULVERT.

LAT...LON 3966 9211 3949 9212 3950 9172 3967 9173

RP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford	42 min
May 26, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Washington	42 min
May 26, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe, Shelby	50 min
May 26, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain	50 min
May 26, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Knox	43 min
May 26, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone	49 min
May 26, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain, Marion, Ralls	49 min
May 26, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lewis	49 min
May 26, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone, Callaway	43 min
May 26, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain	27 min
May 26, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	38 min
May 26, 10:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Pike	26 min
May 27, 12:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau, Osage	6 hr

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.