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Tornado Warning 54, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 4:55 PM CDT for Putnam County, Missouri. It was in force for 65 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 10, 2003, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Putnam County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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 10, 11:35 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 10, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1102 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
342 WFUS53 KEAX 102155 TOREAX MOC171-102300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 455 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 451 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR LUCERNE...OR 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SEYMOUR...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. * THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LEMONS BY 515 PM CDT. UNIONVILLE BY 520 PM CDT. HARTFORD BY 540 PM CDT. GRAYSVILLE BY 545 PM CDT. THIS TORNADO WARNING IS AN UPGRADE TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 4057 9337 4038 9335 4039 9273 4067 9273 $$ SF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 59 min |
| May 9, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 63 min |
| May 9, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 38 min |
| May 9, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard, Randolph | 67 min |
| May 9, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 62 min |
| May 9, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 65 min |
| May 9, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 66 min |
| May 9, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 64 min |
| May 9, 9:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cass | 6 hr |
| May 9, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cass | 30 min |
| May 9, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 59 min |
| May 9, 10:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 42 min |
| May 9, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 63 min |
| May 9, 10:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Saline | 59 min |
| May 9, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 62 min |
| May 9, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 61 min |
| May 9, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 39 min |
| May 9, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 45 min |
| May 10, 3:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 53 min |
| May 10, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 46 min |
| May 10, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 37 min |
| May 10, 3:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 56 min |
| May 10, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 62 min |
| May 10, 4:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 40 min |
| May 10, 4:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 39 min |
| May 10, 4:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 57 min |
| May 10, 4:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 37 min |
| May 10, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 60 min |
| May 10, 4:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 65 min |
| May 10, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 64 min |
| May 10, 5:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 67 min |
| May 10, 5:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 49 min |
| May 10, 5:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 72 min |
| May 10, 5:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline | 6 hr |
| May 10, 5:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Randolph | 6 hr |
| May 10, 6:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 13 min |
| May 10, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 55 min |
| May 10, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Ray | 60 min |
| May 10, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | DeKalb, Gentry | 43 min |
| May 10, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 67 min |
| May 10, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 50 min |
| May 10, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 44 min |
| May 10, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Daviess, Harrison | 51 min |
| May 10, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn | 58 min |
| May 10, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Carroll | 58 min |
| May 10, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer | 64 min |
| May 10, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Saline | 59 min |
| May 10, 4:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Chariton | 42 min |
| May 10, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Adair, Sullivan | 65 min |
| May 10, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Saline | 43 min |
| May 10, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Macon | 47 min |
| May 10, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Putnam | 60 min |
| May 10, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard | 53 min |
| May 10, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 63 min |
| May 10, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Randolph | 39 min |
| May 10, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cooper | 46 min |
| May 10, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Randolph | 32 min |
| May 10, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Putnam | 29 min |
| May 10, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Henry | 47 min |
| May 10, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 45 min |
| May 10, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 38 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.