Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2002, 6:45 PM CDT for Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 60 min. 6 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, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Platte County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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, 6:49 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 E | Weston, MO | |
| May 8, 6:53 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Ferrelview, MO | Car blown off of Interstate 29 southbound at exit 15. |
| May 8, 6:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 M | Ferrelview, MO | |
| May 8, 6:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 53 M | Kansas City Intl Arp, MO | Two cargo buildings and a sand barn had minor damage. |
| May 8, 6:56 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Platte City, MO | |
| May 8, 7:06 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Weatherby Lake, 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KEAX 082345 TORMCI MOC165-090045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 645 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PLATTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 644 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LANSING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. * THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WESTON BY 650 PM CDT. PLATTE CITY...WEATHERBY LAKE...TRACY BY 655 PM CDT. FERRELVIEW...LAKE WAUKOMIS...CAMDEN POINT BY 700 PM CDT. DEARBORN BY 705 PM CDT. EDGERTON BY 710 PM CDT. THE TOWNS OF FARLEY...KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND RIDGELY ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. DO NOT USE HIGHWAY OVERPASSES FOR SHELTER OVERPASSES DO NOT PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM TORNADIC WINDS. VEHICLES STOPPED UNDER BRIDGES BLOCK TRAFFIC AND PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GETTING OUT OF THE STORMS PATH AND TO SHELTER. LAT...LON 3929 9488 3919 9463 3952 9462 3953 9492 HUDSON
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, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Chariton | 41 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, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.