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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 4, 2003Pettis County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2003, 7:10 PM CDT for Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 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, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pettis 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, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 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.

703 
WFUS53 KEAX 050010
TOREAX
MOC159-050100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN PETTIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 704 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO JUST NORTH OF  
  WARRENSBURG MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. DESTRUCTIVE 
  THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   LA MONTE BY 730 PM CDT.
   DRESDEN BY 735 PM CDT.
   HOUSTONIA BY 740 PM CDT.
   HUGHESVILLE....SEDALIA BY 745 PM CDT.
   LONGWOOD....SMITHTON BY 755 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3883 9350 3870 9351 3865 9351 3864 9306
          3893 9307 3892 9350 3895 9352

$$


DB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison	41 min
May 4, 7:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson	27 min
May 4, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	61 min
May 4, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer	41 min
May 4, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy	51 min
May 4, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Saline	51 min
May 4, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	44 min
May 4, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	39 min
May 4, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess	54 min
May 4, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	56 min
May 4, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	58 min
May 4, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll	63 min
May 4, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	40 min
May 4, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	66 min
May 4, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	43 min
May 4, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	52 min
May 4, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	60 min
May 4, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton	44 min
May 4, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	55 min
May 4, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	31 min
May 4, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	49 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.