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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 4, 2003Ray County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2003, 5:03 PM CDT for Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 57 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 4, 2003, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ray 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
May 4, 12:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 409 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 582 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 841 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 17.5

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The text

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

845 
WFUS53 KEAX 042203
TOREAX
MOC177-042300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
503 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 459 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A LARGE AND EXTREMELY
  DANGEROUS TORNADO NEAR LIBERTY...OR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF KANSAS
  CITY...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...
   ORRICK....WOODS HEIGHTS....VIBBARD BY 525 PM CDT.
   CAMDEN BY 535 PM CDT.
   RICHMOND....HENRIETTA....KNOXVILLE BY 540 PM CDT.
   HARDIN BY 550 PM CDT.
   REGAL BY 600 PM CDT.

THE TOWN OF RAYVILLE IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO.

A DAMAGING TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED WITH THIS STORM THIS IS A 
LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...MOVE QUICKLY TO 
THE CENTER AREA OF THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. ABANDON 
AUTOMOBILES BUT DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER HIGHWAY OVERPASSES

LAT...LON 3947 9378 3922 9378 3921 9398 3917 9410
          3923 9422 3945 9421

$$


SEAMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 3:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	33 min
May 4, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew	53 min
May 4, 3:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Buchanan	62 min
May 4, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Platte	55 min
May 4, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Randolph	57 min
May 4, 4:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Jackson	54 min
May 4, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Clay, Clinton	64 min
May 4, 4:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Platte	59 min
May 4, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Cass	61 min
May 4, 5:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Clay, Clinton	24 min
May 4, 5:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Jackson	44 min
May 4, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Bates	24 min
May 4, 5:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Clay	38 min
May 4, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Cass	44 min
May 4, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	28 min
May 4, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Ray	37 min
May 4, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	50 min
May 4, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson	65 min
May 4, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Carroll	63 min
May 4, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Nodaway	43 min
May 4, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	56 min
May 4, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, DeKalb	56 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.