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Tornado Warning 37, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 18, 2000Montgomery County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 18, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 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
Jul 18, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Montgomery County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 277 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2000-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2000-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1400 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 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 
WFUS53 KLSX 182301
TORSTL
MOC139-182345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
600 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 600 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  
A TORNADO OVER NORTHEAST PART OF MONTGOMERY CITY NEAR BUELL...MOVING EAST 
AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
  BELLFLOWER
   

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 3915 9162 3885 9164 3885 9127 3914 9127

RP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMontgomery41 min
Jul 18, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLincoln, Pike48 min
Jul 18, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXLincoln41 min
Jul 18, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXLincoln, Warren50 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.