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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 8, 2003Cass County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 8:54 PM CDT for Cass County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 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, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cass County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.

411 
WFUS53 KEAX 090154
TOREAX
MOC037-090230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN CASS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 850 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ARCHIE...OR 13 MILES NORTH OF BUTLER...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM
  WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   GARDEN CITY BY 900 PM CDT.
   GUNN CITY BY 905 PM CDT.

THIS TORNADO WARNING IS AN UPGRADE TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3847 9439 3846 9413 3867 9414 3868 9431

$$

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, 8:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Bates	63 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, 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

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.