Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2003, 5:06 PM CDT for Clay County, Clinton County, Missouri. It was in force for 24 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, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2003, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clay County, MO, Clinton 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 123 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KEAX 042126 TOREAX MOC047-049-042230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 423 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLINTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI CLAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 419 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING TWO TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS. ONE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RIDGELY...OR 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE SECOND STORM WAS LOCATED ALONG INTERSTATE 435 AND WALLCOTT MOVING EAST AT 35. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. * THIS NORTHERN STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... GRAYSON....TRIMBLE BY 435 PM CDT. GOWER....KEARNEY....MOSBY BY 440 PM CDT. PLATTSBURG....HOLT BY 445 PM CDT. HEMPLE....EXCELSIOR SPRINGS BY 450 PM CDT. LATHROP BY 455 PM CDT. PERRIN BY 500 PM CDT. 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 3973 9424 3927 9424 3918 9460 3973 9461 $$ 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, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Ray | 57 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.