Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2002, 5:37 PM CDT for Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 53 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2002, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Nodaway County, MO
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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 8, 5:55 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Elmo, MO | |
| May 8, 6:01 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Clearmont, MO | |
| May 8, 6:27 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hopkins, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -424 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1282 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KEAX 082237 SVRMCI MOC147-082330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 537 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN NODAWAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 534 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WESTBORO...OR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROCKPORT...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ELMO...BURLINGTON JCT BY 550 PM CDT. CLEARMONT BY 555 PM CDT. PICKERING BY 610 PM CDT. HOPKINS BY 620 PM CDT. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN PLEASANT HILL. LAT...LON 4057 9518 4037 9515 4042 9462 4057 9469 SEAMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 47 min |
| May 8, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 43 min |
| May 8, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 49 min |
| May 8, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 56 min |
| May 8, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 49 min |
| May 8, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard | 56 min |
| May 8, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Chariton | 41 min |
| May 8, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette, Saline | 60 min |
| May 8, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 44 min |
| May 8, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, DeKalb | 51 min |
| May 8, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 46 min |
| May 8, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 28 min |
| May 8, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Randolph | 27 min |
| May 8, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 55 min |
| May 8, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Worth | 32 min |
| May 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Platte | 60 min |
| May 8, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 52 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.