Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 736
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 11, 2000, 10:45 PM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas; 26 counties in Missouri; 8 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 2000, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 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
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 45 min |
| Sep 11, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Polk | 57 min |
| Sep 11, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Hickory | 57 min |
| Sep 11, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 66 min |
| Sep 11, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 28 min |
| Sep 11, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade | 29 min |
| Sep 11, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Laclede, Webster, Wright | 37 min |
| Sep 11, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Polk | 37 min |
| Sep 12, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 45 min |
| Sep 12, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 51 min |
| Sep 12, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 23 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 1561 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
912 WWUS9 KMKC 120332 SEL6 SEL6 WWUS9 KMKC 120327 MKC WW 120327 KSZ000-MOZ000-OKZ000-120800- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 736 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1027 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2000 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING FROM 1045 PM UNTIL 300 AM CDT. HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 55 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BARTLESVILLE OKLAHOMA TO 15 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF FORT LEONARD WOOD MISSOURI. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. OTHER WATCH INFORMATION... CONTINUE...WW 732...WW 733...WW 734...WW 735... DISCUSSION...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP SEWD INTO LOW LEVEL JET. WITH AIRMASS REMAINING UNSTABLE COUPLED WITH THE STEEP LAPSE RATES ABOVE BOUNDARY LAYER...POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL CONTINUE FOR SEVEREL HOURS. AVIATION...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 550. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 32025. ...HALES 365,0915 360,0960 373,0960 382,0915
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Ralls, Randolph and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 11, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Franklin, Gasconade, Lincoln, Osage, Saint Charles, Saint Louis and 2 more | 5 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.