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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 4, 2003Johnson County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2003, 6:10 PM CDT for Johnson County, Missouri. It was in force for 65 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, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Johnson 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.

382 
WFUS53 KEAX 042310
TOREAX
MOC101-050015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 604 PM CDT...A WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH 
  OF GARDEN CITY...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HARRISONVILLE...MOVING 
  EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM 
  WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   LA TOUR BY 620 PM CDT.
   HOLDEN BY 635 PM CDT.
   PITTSVILLE BY 640 PM CDT.
   CHILHOWEE BY 645 PM CDT.
   COLUMBUS BY 650 PM CDT.
   CENTERVIEW BY 655 PM CDT.

AT 609 PM CDT A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED

LAT...LON 3890 9412 3859 9412 3857 9410 3859 9354
          3893 9353

$$


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, 5:46 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, 6:12 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.