Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 10, 2001, 5:29 PM CDT for Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 2001, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pettis County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | La Monte, MO | Tornado on the ground for 11 minutes, moving east. Two barns were destroyed, along with a chicken coop and vacant house. There were also several power poles downed. |
| Apr 10, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Hughesville, MO | |
| Apr 10, 6:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Sedalia, MO | Law enforcement reported wind damage along Boonville road. |
| Apr 10, 6:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Longwood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -302 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KEAX 102230 TORMCI MOC159-102315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 529 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PETTIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 529 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF LA MONTE...OR 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF WARRENSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LA MONTE AT 545 PM CDT HUGHESVILLE AT 550 PM CDT LONGWOOD AT 600 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 42 min |
| Apr 9, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Saline | 56 min |
| Apr 9, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 51 min |
| Apr 9, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 59 min |
| Apr 9, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 49 min |
| Apr 9, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 43 min |
| Apr 9, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 60 min |
| Apr 9, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 59 min |
| Apr 9, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 37 min |
| Apr 9, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 61 min |
| Apr 10, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 58 min |
| Apr 10, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 54 min |
| Apr 10, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 66 min |
| Apr 10, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 57 min |
| Apr 10, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 58 min |
| Apr 10, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 39 min |
| Apr 10, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cass | 33 min |
| Apr 10, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 45 min |
| Apr 10, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 53 min |
| Apr 10, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 53 min |
| Apr 10, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cass, Johnson | 55 min |
| Apr 10, 5:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 4 hr |
| Apr 10, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 52 min |
| Apr 10, 5:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 3 hr |
| Apr 10, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cooper | 61 min |
| Apr 10, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 41 min |
| Apr 10, 6:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 112 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.