Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 9, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2000, 6:44 PM CST for Audrain County, Missouri. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 26, 2000, 6:44 PM CST (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Audrain County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:50 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Mexico, MO | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few trees in Mexico. |
| Mar 26, 7:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Vandalia, MO | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some trees and damaged a few 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 4:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 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
- 2650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 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 270045 TORSTL MOC007-270115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 644 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN AUDRAIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 643 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEXICO... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... RUSH HILL LADDONIA DOPPLER RADAR IS SHOWING A STRONG TORNADO SIGNAL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH MOVE TO A SHELTER NOW! A BASEMENT IS BEST...BUT IF NOT AVAILABLE...MOVE TO THE LOWEST LEVEL AND HIDE IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. GET OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND CARS IN FAVOR OF A STRONG BUILDING. PEDIGO/BRITT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 6:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 43 min |
| Mar 26, 6:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery, Pike | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 60 min |
| Mar 26, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Warren | 60 min |
| Mar 26, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, Warren | 60 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.