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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 8, 2003Bates County, Missouri; Linn County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 8:27 PM CDT for Bates County, Missouri; Linn County, Kansas. 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 8, 2003, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Linn County, KS, Bates County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
May 8, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 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

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The text

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

146 
WFUS53 KEAX 090127
TOREAX
KSC107-MOC013-090230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
827 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN LINN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
  BATES COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 824 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TRADING POST...OR 21 MILES WEST OF BUTLER...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM
  WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.  THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY 
  OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   AMORET....AMSTERDAM....FOSTER BY 835 PM CDT.
   MERWIN....RICH HILL BY 840 PM CDT.
   BUTLER BY 850 PM CDT.
   ADRIAN BY 855 PM CDT.
   ALTONA BY 900 PM CDT.
   BALLARD BY 905 PM CDT.

THE TOWN OF PASSAIC IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO.

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 3838 9486 3804 9490 3809 9410 3844 9409
          3847 9460 3837 9461

$$

HUDSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Sullivan	34 min
May 8, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	67 min
May 8, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	36 min
May 8, 8:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Cass	36 min
May 8, 9:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Henry	58 min
May 8, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	57 min
May 8, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	47 min
May 8, 9:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson	42 min
May 8, 9:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Pettis	54 min
May 8, 10:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson	30 min
May 8, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	38 min
May 8, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	58 min
May 8, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	39 min
May 9, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette	52 min
May 9, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	62 min
May 9, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	64 min
May 8, 7:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Atchison, Leavenworth	41 min
May 8, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Linn	53 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.