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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 30, 2003Gentry County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2003, 6:53 PM CDT for Gentry 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: Apr 30, 2003, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gentry County, MO

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 30, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 758 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -361 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 980 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

599 
WFUS53 KEAX 302353
TOREAX
MOC075-010030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
654 PM CDT WED APR 30 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN GENTRY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 651 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GENTRY...OR 19 MILES WEST OF BETHANY...
  MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM
  WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  GENTRY COUNTY.

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

LAT...LON 4028 9448 4029 9422 4039 9422 4039 9451

$$

HUDSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 8:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	DeKalb	41 min
Apr 30, 9:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy	26 min
Apr 30, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	41 min
Apr 30, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	44 min
Apr 30, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	66 min
Apr 30, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	33 min
Apr 30, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Worth	76 min
Apr 30, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry	55 min
Apr 30, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	59 min
Apr 30, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Harrison	39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.