Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 344
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT for Alexander County, Jackson County, Illinois; 45 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties
Alexander County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Madison County, MO, McDonald County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Perry County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Scott County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Washington County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 26 min |
| May 24, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 49 min |
| May 24, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 31 min |
| May 24, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Wright | 41 min |
| May 24, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Texas | 50 min |
| May 24, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald, Newton | 67 min |
| May 24, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 50 min |
| May 24, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone, Taney | 63 min |
| May 24, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Stone, Taney | 52 min |
| May 24, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Oregon, Shannon | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry | 51 min |
| May 24, 8:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell | 32 min |
| May 24, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter | 46 min |
| May 24, 8:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell | 4 hr |
| May 24, 8:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 24, 9:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Shannon, Texas | 4 hr |
| May 24, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Stoddard | 46 min |
| May 24, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Stone, Taney | 31 min |
| May 24, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 57 min |
| May 24, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 51 min |
| May 24, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Ozark | 40 min |
| May 24, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 54 min |
| May 24, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Stoddard | 48 min |
| May 24, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Ozark | 35 min |
| May 24, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ripley | 34 min |
| May 24, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler | 34 min |
| May 24, 11:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Stoddard | 4 hr |
| May 25, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid | 25 min |
| May 25, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid | 33 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 606 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Stoddard | 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.