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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 7:37 PM CDT for Linn County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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 8, 2003, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Linn County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 8, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1679 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
535 WFUS53 KEAX 090037 TOREAX KSC107-090130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 737 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LINN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 731 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO NEAR COLONY...OR 7 MILES NORTH OF IOLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. * THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BLUE MOUND BY 755 PM CDT. CENTERVILLE KS BY 800 PM CDT. MOUND CITY KS....PARKER BY 805 PM CDT. PRESCOTT BY 810 PM CDT. PLEASANTON BY 815 PM CDT. TRADING POST....LA CYGNE BY 820 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 THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3838 9506 3804 9505 3805 9464 3839 9464 $$ HUDSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Atchison, Leavenworth | 41 min |
| May 8, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn | 63 min |
| May 9, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 64 min |
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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.