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Tornado Warning 51, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2000, 11:02 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Missouri. It was in force for 28 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
- Aug 23, 2000, 11:02 PM CDT (04:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Montgomery County, MO
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 1082 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLSX 240402 TORSTL MOC139-240430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1102 PM CDT WED AUG 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1102 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR MIDDLETOWN...MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. 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 3919 9154 3901 9152 3902 9128 3917 9126 TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion, Shelby | 38 min |
| Aug 23, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Monroe | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Ralls | 41 min |
| Aug 23, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 50 min |
| Aug 23, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Ralls | 30 min |
| Aug 23, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 59 min |
| Aug 23, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 62 min |
| Aug 23, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Warren | 53 min |
| Aug 23, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 65 min |
| Aug 23, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 63 min |
| Aug 24, 1:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Audrain, Montgomery | 5 hr |
| Aug 24, 2:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Franklin, Warren | 5 hr |
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.