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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 4, 2003Carroll County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2003, 6:12 PM CDT for Carroll County, Missouri. It was in force for 63 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, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Carroll County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 198 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.

756 
WFUS53 KEAX 042312
TOREAX
MOC033-050015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 609 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR   
  HARDIN...OR 37 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHILLICOTHE...MOVING EAST AT 
  30 MPH. LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS AND DESTRUCTIVE 
  THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   NORBORNE BY 625 PM CDT.
   CARROLLTON....BOGARD....COLOMA BY 645 PM CDT.
   WAKENDA BY 655 PM CDT.
   BOSWORTH....HALE BY 705 PM CDT.
   DE WITT BY 710 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

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 3961 9329 3946 9328 3939 9321 3929 9337
          3925 9377 3961 9376

$$


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, 5:53 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, 6:17 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.