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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 30, 2001Ray County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2001, 6:58 PM CDT for Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 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 30, 2001, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ray County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 7:17 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Camden, MO	Brief tornado touchdown reported with no damage or injuries.

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
May 30, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 302359
TORMCI

MOC177-310045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 658 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ORRICK...OR 25 MILES EAST
  OF KANSAS CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HENRIETTA AT 710 PM CDT
  RICHMOND AT 720 PM CDT
  WOODS HEIGHTS AT 730 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 3923 9421 3915 9410 3923 9378 3951 9377
          3952 9421

$$
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, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson	35 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

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.