Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2002, 12:03 AM CST for Linn County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 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
- Mar 9, 2002, 12:03 AM CST (06:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2002, 12:45 AM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Linn County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 12:20 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Brookfield, MO |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 727 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KEAX 090603 SVRMCI MOC115-090645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1203 AM CST SAT MAR 9 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LINN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 1245 AM CST * AT MIDNIGHT CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES WEST OF BROWNING TO FOUNTAIN GROVE...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... PURDIN...LINNEUS BY 1210 AM CST. SHELBY...BROOKFIELD BY 1215 AM CST. THE TOWN OF LACLEDE IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. DIME SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED AT WHEELING IN EASTERN LIVINGSTON COUNTY. 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. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4003 9337 3974 9334 3973 9290 4001 9291 DB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Platte | 62 min |
| Mar 8, 10:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | DeKalb, Gentry, Worth | 58 min |
| Mar 8, 10:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton | 55 min |
| Mar 8, 10:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 53 min |
| Mar 8, 10:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Daviess, Harrison | 37 min |
| Mar 8, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 60 min |
| Mar 8, 11:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Mercer | 39 min |
| Mar 8, 11:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 11:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Livingston | 61 min |
| Mar 8, 11:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Putnam, Sullivan | 59 min |
| Mar 9, 12:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton | 53 min |
| Mar 9, 12:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Macon | 61 min |
| Mar 9, 12:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 53 min |
| Mar 9, 12:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Schuyler | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.