Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 26, 2002Daviess County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2002, 3:47 PM CDT for Daviess County, Missouri. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2002, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2002, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Daviess County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 57 E	Gallatin, MO	Six inch tree limbs down.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 384 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1341 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 262047
SVRMCI
MOC061-262145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
347 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 344 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PATTONSBURG...OR 16
  MILES SOUTH OF BETHANY...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   ALTAMONT...WINSTON BY 355 PM CDT
   GALLATIN...JAMESPORT BY 400 PM CDT
   CARLOW BY 405 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
PLEASANT HILL.

LAT...LON 4014 9400 4006 9421 3981 9419 3979 9379
          4007 9379

KOCH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway, Worth	56 min
Jun 26, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	42 min
Jun 26, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	DeKalb	58 min
Jun 26, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	56 min
Jun 26, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew	53 min
Jun 26, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	65 min
Jun 26, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	61 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.