Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2003, 7:54 PM CDT for Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 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, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Saline 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
297 WFUS53 KEAX 050054 TOREAX MOC195-050145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 750 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 744 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO NEAR HOUSTONIA...OR 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEDALIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED AT 735 PM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA MONTE IN PETTIS COUNTY. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. * THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MARSHALL BY 830 PM CDT. NAPTON BY 835 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3912 9349 3895 9350 3894 9305 3914 9305 $$ 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, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Pettis | 50 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, 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.