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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 26, 2002Daviess County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 2002, 7:53 PM CDT for Daviess County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 26, 2002, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Daviess County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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
Jul 26, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Jameson, MO	Brief tornado touchdown with no damage or injuries reported.

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
Jul 26, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 181 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1886 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2354 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

247 
WFUS53 KEAX 270053
TORMCI
MOC061-270130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
752 PM CDT FRI JUL 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 750 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JAMESON...OR 19 MILES SOUTH OF BETHANY...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM
  WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   COFFEY BY 800 PM CDT.
   JAMESPORT BY 825 PM CDT.

THIS TORNADO WARNING IS AN UPGRADE TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

LAT...LON 3993 9412 3988 9382 4013 9377 4012 9404

HUDSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess	54 min
Jul 26, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	56 min
Jul 26, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	58 min
Jul 26, 8:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Daviess, Grundy	58 min
Jul 26, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway	62 min
Jul 26, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy	61 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.