Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2000, 8:33 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min. 4 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 19, 2000, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Crawford County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 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 19, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Walnut, KS | |
| Apr 19, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Hiattville, KS | |
| Apr 19, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Mc Cune, KS | |
| Apr 19, 9:32 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Girard, KS |
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, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 WFUS53 KSGF 200134 TORSGF KSC011-037-200230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 833 PM CDT WED APR 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS BOURBON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 831 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A TORNADO NEAR ST. PAUL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED BE NEAR... HEPLER BY 845 PM CDT. FORT SCOTT BY 905 PM CDT. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IN IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. 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 | Bourbon | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Crawford | 64 min |
| Apr 20, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 44 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.