Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 10, 2001, 5:59 PM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It was in force for 61 min. 4 reports 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
- Apr 10, 2001, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Cooper County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Pilot Grove, MO | Tornado on the ground around Pilot Grove for 5 minutes, moving east. It produced minor roof damage to two homes. There were also downed trees and power lines. It was accompanied by baseball sized hail. |
| Apr 10, 6:16 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Blackwater, MO | |
| Apr 10, 6:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Bunceton, MO | |
| Apr 10, 6:36 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Boonville, 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 1257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KEAX 102300
TORMCI
MOC053-110000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
559 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
COOPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 559 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 19 MILES WEST OF
PLEASANT GREEN...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SWEET SPRINGS...MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
BLACKWATER AT 620 PM CDT
PILOT GROVE AT 625 PM CDT
LAMINE AT 630 PM CDT
BOONVILLE AT 640 PM CDT
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO THREAT...THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS OF 80 MPH AND GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS TO A CENTER LOCATION
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO THE
PATH OF THIS STORM AND DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS
LAT...LON 3898 9260 3899 9268 3897 9277 3897 9287
3900 9299 3897 9304 3872 9306 3872 9296
3872 9284 3874 9264 3881 9260
PBThe 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, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Pettis | 46 min |
| 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, 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 |
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.