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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2003, 5:53 PM CDT for Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 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, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.
675 WFUS53 KEAX 042253 TOREAX MOC177-042330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 552 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 630 PM CDT * AT 549 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RICHMOND...OR 29 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. * THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HENRIETTA BY 600 PM CDT. HARDIN BY 610 PM CDT. REGAL BY 615 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 REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN PLEASANT HILL. LAT...LON 3947 9378 3922 9378 3920 9413 3941 9416 $$ 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, 5:06 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, 5:55 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.