Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2002, 7:25 PM CDT for Gentry County, Missouri. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 18, 2002, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gentry County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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 18, 7:35 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Gentry, 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 18, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KEAX 190025 SVRMCI MOC075-190130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 723 PM CDT THU APR 18 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GENTRY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 719 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RAVENWOOD...OR 8 MILES EAST OF MARYVILLE... AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT RAVENWOOD AT 724 PM. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... STANBERRY BY 735 PM CDT. DARLINGTON BY 750 PM CDT. GENTRY BY 755 PM CDT. ALBANY BY 800 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE... SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4039 9461 4013 9461 4015 9422 4039 9424 PB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 28 min |
| Apr 18, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 53 min |
| Apr 18, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Worth | 57 min |
| Apr 18, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 45 min |
| Apr 18, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 37 min |
| Apr 18, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 58 min |
| Apr 18, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer | 60 min |
| Apr 18, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry | 37 min |
| Apr 18, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 60 min |
| Apr 18, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 4:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 5:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 5:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 6:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 6:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 6:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 53 min |
| Apr 19, 7:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard, Saline | 59 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.