Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 8:26 AM CST for Bollinger County, Missouri. It was in force for 19 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
- Jan 3, 2000, 8:26 AM CST (14:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 8:45 AM CST
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bollinger County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 8:35 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Glenallen, MO | Spotters estimated gusts to 60 MPH. Some trees were down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 7:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 486 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 513 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 031427 TORPAH MOC017-031445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 826 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BOLLINGER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI * UNTIL 845 AM CST * AT 826 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF GLENALLEN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARBLE HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER SEDGEWICKVILLE AT 835 AM CST A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 7:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter, Ripley | 45 min |
| Jan 3, 8:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Wayne | 45 min |
| Jan 3, 8:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Cape Girardeau, Perry | 26 min |
| Jan 3, 9:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi, Scott | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 10:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Mississippi | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 12:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler, Ripley, Stoddard | 114 min |
| Jan 3, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Cape Girardeau | 34 min |
| Jan 3, 1:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid, Stoddard | 42 min |
| Jan 3, 1:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid | 38 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.