Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 48, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 18, 2000, 8:33 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Warren County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 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, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Montgomery County, MO, Warren County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 1033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 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 190135 TORSTL MOC139-219-190215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 833 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEAST MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI NORTHERN WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 833 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEW FLORENCE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... HIGH HILL WARRENTON 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 3896 9147 3878 9147 3869 9113 3893 9113 RP
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 49 min |
| Jul 18, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 49 min |
| Jul 18, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jul 18, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 39 min |
| Jul 18, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis | 43 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.