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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2003, 5:46 PM CDT for Cass County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 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, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cass 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, 10.8 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.
769 WFUS53 KEAX 042246 TOREAX MOC037-042330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 543 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN CASS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 540 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATES A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARCHIE. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AS IT PRODUCED A TORNADO AT DREXEL AT 525 PM. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. * THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ARCHIE BY 550 PM CDT. HARRISONVILLE BY 555 PM CDT. DAYTON BY 600 PM CDT. GARDEN CITY BY 605 PM CDT. GUNN CITY BY 615 PM CDT. STRASBURG BY 620 PM CDT. THE TOWN OF EAST LYNNE IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. LAT...LON 3877 9439 3847 9441 3846 9412 3878 9413 $$ DB
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, 5:06 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, 5:47 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.