Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Feb 25, 2000, 3:49 PM CST for Audrain County, Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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 25, 2000, 3:49 PM CST (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2000, 4:35 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Audrain County, MO, Callaway County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Hatton, MO | A tornado occurred near Hatton and downed trees and destroyed a couple of outbuildings. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 290 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
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 252151 TORSTL MOC007-027-252235- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 349 PM CST FRI FEB 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... AUDRAIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI WESTERN CALLAWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 435 PM CST * AT 349 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLUMBIA... MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... MEXICO HATTON MILLERSBURG THOMPSON THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION! IF IN THE PATH...TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT IF AVAILABLE. IF NOT...STAY ON THE LOWEST LEVEL AND GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. MOBILE HOMES AND AUTOMOBILESHOULD BE ABANDONED IN FAVOR OF A STRONG STRUCTURE. AS A LAST RESORT... MOVE TO A DITCH OR CULVERT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. TRUETT/RP
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 2:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Moniteau | 31 min |
| Feb 25, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Cole | 51 min |
| Feb 25, 3:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Boone | 44 min |
| Feb 25, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Ralls | 50 min |
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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.