Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2003, 7:14 PM CDT for Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 31 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
- Apr 30, 2003, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Platte County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 5:15 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 92 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
- 3988 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
040
WFUS53 KEAX 010014
TOREAX
MOC165-010045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
713 PM CDT WED APR 30 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN PLATTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* AT 712 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
NORTHWEST OF KCI AIRPORT...OR 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
ATCHISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND
DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
* THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
DEARBORN BY 720 PM CDT.
RIDGELY BY 725 PM CDT.
EDGERTON BY 730 PM CDT.
THE TOWNS OF TRACY AND CAMDEN POINT ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS
TORNADO.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
PLEASANT HILL.
LAT...LON 3953 9462 3933 9462 3933 9480 3944 9495
3953 9486
$$
SEAMANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 40 min |
| Apr 30, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton | 59 min |
| Apr 30, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Harrison | 44 min |
| Apr 30, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Clinton | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Mercer | 57 min |
| Apr 30, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan | 66 min |
| Apr 30, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Clinton | 19 min |
| Apr 30, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 58 min |
| Apr 30, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 56 min |
| Apr 30, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | DeKalb | 69 min |
| Apr 30, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Putnam | 60 min |
| Apr 30, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer | 56 min |
| Apr 30, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Schuyler | 52 min |
| Apr 30, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 63 min |
| Apr 30, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, DeKalb | 61 min |
| Apr 30, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 64 min |
| Apr 30, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Livingston | 63 min |
| Apr 30, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 64 min |
| Apr 30, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 52 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.