Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 6, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Feb 29, 2000, 7:41 PM CST for Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 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 29, 2000, 7:41 PM CST (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2000, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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 29, 7:50 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Curryville, MO | A small tornado struck in northwest Pike County. Damage was limited to downed trees, |
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 nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 1710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 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 010144 TORSTL MOC163-010230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 741 PM CST TUE FEB 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN PIKE COUNTY MISSOURI IN NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 830 PM CST * AT 741 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST NORTHEAST OF VANDALIA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH . * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... CURRYVILLE SPENCERBURG FRANKFORD 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 RP/TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone | 50 min |
| Feb 29, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Ralls | 36 min |
| Feb 29, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 46 min |
| Feb 29, 8:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Washington | 36 min |
| Feb 29, 9:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.