Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 176
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 19, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; 35 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 51 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clark County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Putnam 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, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 27 min |
| Apr 19, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, DeKalb | 67 min |
| Apr 19, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Clinton | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, Grundy, Harrison | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho | 20 min |
| Apr 19, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 54 min |
| Apr 19, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Crawford | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer, Putnam, Sullivan | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Sullivan | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Saline | 56 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1677 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Barry, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Christian and 41 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Missouri, 2000Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2000Every tornado watch in 2000
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.