Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 5, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Feb 25, 2000, 4:30 PM CST for Ralls County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 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, 4:30 PM CST (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2000, 5:20 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ralls County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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, 4:40 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Perry, MO | Thunderstorm wind gusts caused damage in Perry. Trees and power lines were downed and some utility poles broken. Some storage sheds at homes were destroyed and a trailer at a construction site was destroyed. |
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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 926 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 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 252232 TORSTL MOC173-252320- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 430 PM CST FRI FEB 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RALLS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 520 PM CST * AT 430 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NORTH OF RUSH HILL IN NORTH CENTRAL AUDRAIN COUNTY... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... PERRY CENTER NEW LONDON IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW! A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. IF 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 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, 3:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Audrain, Callaway | 46 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.