Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 26, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 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
- Jun 4, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Montgomery County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 6:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Wellsville, MO | The County Sheriff reported several trees down in Wellsville. |
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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLSX 042331 TORSTL MOC139-050000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 630 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 630 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WELLSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... BUELL BELLFLOWER MIDDLETOWN WELLSVILLE 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. LAT...LON 3916 9163 3902 9164 3890 9127 3914 9126 P!RZYBYLINSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Ralls | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Moniteau | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway, Cole | 54 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.