Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2000, 1:57 AM CDT for Benton County, Hickory County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 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
- Apr 20, 2000, 1:57 AM CDT (06:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benton County, MO, Hickory County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 2:25 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincoln, MO | |
| Apr 20, 2:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Preston, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 12.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KSGF 200658 SVRSGF MOC015-085-200745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 157 AM CDT THU APR 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HICKORY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI BENTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 245 AM CDT * AT 155 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF OSCEOLA...OR 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WARSAW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL... AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WARS_AW BY 205 AM CDT. LINCOLN BY 210 AM CDT. COLE CAMP BY 215 AM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. LINDENBERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Vernon | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barton | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 10:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 10:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cedar, Vernon | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 10:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Hickory, St. Clair | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 33 min |
| Apr 20, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Miller, Morgan | 33 min |
| Apr 20, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 25 min |
| Apr 20, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar | 52 min |
| Apr 20, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 1:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Dade | 29 min |
| Apr 20, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Polk, Webster | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark, Taney | 57 min |
| Apr 20, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian | 17 min |
| Apr 20, 2:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede, Wright | 50 min |
| Apr 20, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Pulaski | 38 min |
| Apr 20, 3:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Maries, Miller | 55 min |
| Apr 20, 3:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps | 55 min |
| Apr 20, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Ozark | 45 min |
| Apr 20, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Shannon, Texas | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 4:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 42 min |
| Apr 20, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 34 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.