Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 7:09 AM CST for Oregon County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 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, 7:09 AM CST (13:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oregon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 7:22 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Alton, 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 245 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 KSGF 031309 SVRSGF MOC149-031400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 709 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OREGON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 800 AM CST * AT 705 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THAYER AND KOSHKONONG AND WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ALTON AND COUCH BY 730 AM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT DAMAGING WINDS AND/OR LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED. SEEK SHELTER NOW AND REMAIN PROTECTED UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. FOSTER/TERRY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 2:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 39 min |
| Jan 3, 5:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 24 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.