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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2003, 8:11 PM CDT for Clinton County, Missouri. It was in force for 19 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, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clinton County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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, 1.2 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.
- 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.
190 WFUS53 KEAX 010111 TOREAX MOC049-010130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 809 PM CDT WED APR 30 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CLINTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 807 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG ROTATION 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LATHROP. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LATHROP...OR 31 MILES NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN 810 AND 815 PM. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... CLINTON COUNTY. 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 3962 9423 3947 9423 3947 9449 3961 9448 $$ SEAMAN
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, 7:31 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, 8:17 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.