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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 23, 2004Nodaway County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2004, 12:13 AM CDT for Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2004, 12:13 AM CDT (05:13 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2004, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Nodaway County, MO

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:13 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 23, 12:26 AM CDT	HAIL 0.88	Skidmore, MO

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 22, 10:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 2882 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1091 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 260 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.2
Supercell composite: 16.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

064 
WUUS53 KEAX 230513
SVREAX
MOC147-230600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1212 AM CDT SUN MAY 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NODAWAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* AT 1209 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM COLLEGE SPRINGS TO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WESTBORO TO LANGDON...
  OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARYVILLE TO 
  ROCKPORT...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   CLEARMONT BY 1220 AM CDT.
   BURLINGTON JCT BY 1225 AM CDT.
   QUITMAN BY 1230 AM CDT.
   PICKERING BY 1240 AM CDT.
   MARYVILLE BY 1250 AM CDT.
   ARKOE BY 100 AM CDT.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN
DEVELOP QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...
ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH WERE REPORTED IN ROCKPORT AT 1207 AM  
WITH THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...SEEK SAFE SHELTER AND 
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OR LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN PLEASANT HILL.

LAT...LON 4058 9520 4029 9517 4029 9509 4016 9504
      4018 9465 4056 9464

$$


SEAMAN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	67 min
May 23, 12:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	53 min
May 23, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	DeKalb, Gentry	58 min
May 23, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess	61 min
May 23, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer	56 min
May 23, 1:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Putnam, Sullivan	60 min
May 23, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	47 min
May 23, 3:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	58 min
May 23, 3:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.