Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2001, 7:07 PM CDT for Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2001, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Nodaway County, MO
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Graham, MO | Trained spotter reported brief tornado touchdown to the south of Graham. There were no injuries or damage reported. |
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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KEAX 050009 TORMCI MOC147-050100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 707 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN NODAWAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 707 PM CDT...ANDREW COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPUTY REPORTED A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTH OF GRAHAM...OR 5 MILES NORTH OF FILLMORE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... GRAHAM AT 735 PM CDT SKIDMORE AT 755 PM CDT MARYVILLE AT 800 PM CDT THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING NUMEROUS BUT VERY BRIEF TOUCHDOWNS ALONG COUNTY HIGHWAY H IN WESTERN ANDREW COUNTY. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY NOT BE OCCURRING WHEN THE WARNING IS ISSUED...BUT ONE IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT DRIVE INTO THIS STORM AND DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS LAT...LON 4042 9519 4013 9505 4013 9484 4041 9487 19
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 41 min |
| May 4, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 53 min |
| May 4, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 64 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.