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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Kansas City, MO

September 21, 1993Andrew County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Sep 21, 1993, 8:04 PM CDT for Andrew County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 21, 1993, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired: Sep 21, 1993, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Andrew County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 1569 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 260 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 506 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 30.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 220103
TORMCI
MOC003-220145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
804 PM CDT TUE SEP 21 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...ANDREW COUNTY
 
AT 804 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO WAS FORMING IN A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF MOUND CITY NEAR BROWNS CURVE. THE
STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH...AND SHOULD MOVE THROUGH AREAS NORTH OF
FILLMORE AND THEN INTO ROSENDALE BY 830 PM CDT.
 
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIFS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 21, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	56 min
Sep 21, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt, Nodaway	49 min
Sep 21, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	53 min
Sep 21, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	50 min
Sep 21, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	DeKalb	41 min
Sep 21, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew	28 min
Sep 21, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	47 min
Sep 21, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt, Nodaway	40 min
Sep 21, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry	43 min
Sep 21, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew	50 min
Sep 21, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	50 min
Sep 21, 10:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, DeKalb, Gentry, Nodaway	4 hr
Sep 21, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, DeKalb	38 min
Sep 21, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, DeKalb	41 min
Sep 21, 11:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	3 hr
Sep 21, 11:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess	3 hr
Sep 21, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton	49 min
Sep 22, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	DeKalb	30 min
Sep 22, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clinton	40 min
Sep 22, 12:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Caldwell	2 hr
Sep 22, 1:07 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Ray	38 min
Sep 22, 4:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Audrain	40 min
Sep 22, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	40 min
Sep 22, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	49 min
Sep 22, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Audrain, Boone	50 min
Sep 22, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette	53 min
Sep 22, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Audrain, Boone, Callaway	61 min
Sep 22, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Montgomery	61 min
Sep 22, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	45 min
Sep 22, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	49 min
Sep 22, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	44 min
Sep 22, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Boone, Cooper, Moniteau	52 min

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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.