Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2002, 7:22 PM CDT for Harrison County, Worth County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 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, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Harrison County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 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, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hatfield, MO | |
| May 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Allendale, MO | |
| May 8, 7:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Grant City, 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KEAX 090022 TORMCI MOC081-227-090100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 721 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN HARRISON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI EASTERN WORTH COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 719 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALLENDALE...OR 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF BETHANY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. * THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HATFIELD BY 745 PM CDT. THIS IS AN UPGRADE TO THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WORTH COUNTY. 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 4048 9451 4039 9428 4067 9387 4083 9411 SEAMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Clay, Clinton | 43 min |
| May 8, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 55 min |
| May 8, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 66 min |
| May 8, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Worth | 47 min |
| May 8, 7:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 4 hr |
| May 8, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 61 min |
| May 8, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 57 min |
| May 8, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 53 min |
| May 8, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 4 hr |
| May 8, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy | 60 min |
| May 8, 7:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 3 hr |
| May 8, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Daviess, Livingston | 65 min |
| May 8, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Henry | 63 min |
| May 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline | 4 hr |
| May 8, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 58 min |
| May 8, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon, Randolph | 43 min |
| May 8, 8:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Henry | 4 hr |
| May 8, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 64 min |
| May 8, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 30 min |
| May 8, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 56 min |
| May 8, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 53 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002
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.