Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 2000, 5:39 PM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 36 min. 3 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2000, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bollinger County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 6:03 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Advance, MO | Golf ball size hail occurred. |
| Apr 16, 6:09 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Randles, MO | |
| Apr 16, 6:20 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Advance, MO |
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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KPAH 162240 TORPAH MOC017-031-201-207-162315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 539 PM CDT SUN APR 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BOLLINGER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI SOUTHERN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI SCOTT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI NORTHERN STODDARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 539 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES WEST OF ADVANCE... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 2 MILES SOUTH OF ADVANCE AT 555 PM CDT 3 MILES NORTH OF BELL CITY AT 610 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! LAT...LON 3719 9010 3701 9014 3694 8972 3716 8968 MY/CN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Wayne | 24 min |
| Apr 16, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Stoddard | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard | 39 min |
| Apr 16, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Scott, Stoddard | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Stoddard | 48 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.