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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 8, 2002Chariton County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2002, 6:04 PM CDT for Chariton County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 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: May 8, 2002, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2002, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chariton County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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
May 8, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -814 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1189 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 522 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 829 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KEAX 082304
TORMCI
MOC041-082345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
603 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN CHARITON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 559 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GILLIAM...OR 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  MARSHALL...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE
  THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   SHANNONDALE...FOREST GREEN BY 610 PM CDT.
   SALISBURY BY 615 PM CDT.

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

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3947 9274 3934 9274 3926 9286 3934 9295

LS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	47 min
May 8, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	43 min
May 8, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	49 min
May 8, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	56 min
May 8, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	49 min
May 8, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	53 min
May 8, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Howard	56 min
May 8, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette, Saline	60 min
May 8, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Randolph	44 min
May 8, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, DeKalb	51 min
May 8, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	46 min
May 8, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	28 min
May 8, 6:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Randolph	27 min
May 8, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	55 min
May 8, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Worth	32 min
May 8, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Platte	60 min
May 8, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll	52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.