Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 121
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 26, 2000, 4:30 PM CST for 45 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2000, 4:30 PM CST (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Adair County, MO, Audrain County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clark County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Maries County, MO, Marion County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Osage County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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.
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Callaway | 58 min |
| Mar 26, 4:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Johnson, Lafayette | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 4:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Ray | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Shelby | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 5:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Johnson, Lafayette | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 5:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Ralls | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 5:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 5:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway | 61 min |
| Mar 26, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry, Johnson | 60 min |
| Mar 26, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 55 min |
| Mar 26, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 51 min |
| Mar 26, 6:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 68 min |
| Mar 26, 6:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 68 min |
| Mar 26, 6:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 6:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 6:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 6:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Audrain | 31 min |
| Mar 26, 6:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 43 min |
| Mar 26, 7:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Hickory, St. Clair | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 7:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Morgan | 52 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 2530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 12:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Buchanan, Caldwell and 28 more | 6 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.