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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 27, 2002Pettis County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 2002, 6:25 PM CDT for Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 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 27, 2002, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pettis County, MO

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 27, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 441 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 528 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 630 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

154 
WFUS53 KEAX 272325
TORMCI
MOC159-280015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
626 PM CDT SAT APR 27 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN PETTIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 622 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR LA MONTE...OR 12
  MILES WEST OF SEDALIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   HUGHESVILLE...SEDALIA...HOUSTONIA BY 635 PM CDT.
   LONGWOOD BY 645 PM CDT.

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.

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 3866 9349 3866 9311 3892 9307 3893 9343

HUDSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	30 min
Apr 27, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Caldwell	40 min
Apr 27, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Livingston	45 min
Apr 27, 6:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Linn	37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.