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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 30, 2001Johnson County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2001, 5:55 PM CDT for Johnson County, Missouri. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2001, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Johnson County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 515 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KEAX 302255
TORMCI
MOC101-302330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
555 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 555 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF HOLDEN...OR 15 MILES WEST OF
  WARRENSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PITTSVILLE AT 600 PM CDT
  CENTERVIEW AT 605 PM CDT
  COLUMBUS AT 615 PM CDT
  FAYETTEVILLE AT 630 PM CDT

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 3890 9404 3869 9404 3871 9352 3892 9355

$$
KOCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Henry	31 min
May 30, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson	27 min
May 30, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	41 min
May 30, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Ray	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.