Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2002, 12:08 PM CDT for Macon County, Missouri. It was in force for 67 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2002, 12:08 PM CDT (17:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2002, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Macon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 24, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -364 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 846 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 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 241708
SVRMCI
MOC121-241815-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1207 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MACON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 115 PM CDT
* AT 1204 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 GOLDSBERRY...OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KIRKSVILLE...AND
MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. ADDITIONAL SEVERE STORMS MAY MOVE INTO
WESTERN SECTIONS OF MACON COUNTY AFTER 1230 PM.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
ATLANTA...AXTELL...MACON BY 1215 PM CDT.
LA PLATA...ANABEL BY 1220 PM CDT.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
LAT...LON 4003 9236 3964 9231 3963 9267 3972 9270
3972 9282 4004 9283
MJThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 8:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 37 min |
| Apr 24, 10:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Worth | 50 min |
| Apr 24, 10:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 51 min |
| Apr 24, 11:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer | 36 min |
| Apr 24, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Schuyler | 30 min |
| Apr 24, 11:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Putnam | 51 min |
| Apr 24, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Sullivan | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.