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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2003, 7:31 PM CDT for Harrison County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 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, 7:31 PM CDT (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Harrison County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 212 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.
997 WFUS53 KEAX 010031 TOREAX MOC081-010115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 730 PM CDT WED APR 30 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 727 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RIDGEWAY...OR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BETHANY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. * THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MOUNT MORIAH BY 740 PM CDT. A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN WAS REPORTED SOUTH OF EAGLEVILLE WITH THIS STORM IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO THREAT...THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS TO A CENTER LOCATION ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO THE PATH OF THIS STORM AND DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS LAT...LON 4056 9418 4028 9421 4029 9378 4056 9379 $$ HUDSON
The 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, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Platte | 31 min |
| Apr 30, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton | 59 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 |
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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.