Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 207
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 6, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas; 33 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2001, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Audrain County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Polk County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon | 45 min |
| May 6, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Polk | 41 min |
| May 6, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 45 min |
| May 6, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 58 min |
| May 6, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon | 60 min |
| May 6, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Hickory | 60 min |
| May 6, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian, Lawrence | 43 min |
| May 6, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway, Cole | 52 min |
| May 6, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Polk | 62 min |
| May 6, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 66 min |
| May 6, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 50 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1030 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1283 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford | 6 hr |
| May 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton | 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.