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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2004, 8:58 PM CDT for Macon County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 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 24, 2004, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Macon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 3762 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.4
- Supercell composite
- 25.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KEAX 250158 SVREAX MOC121-250245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 858 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MACON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 857 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF AXTELL...OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHELBINA...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ANABEL BY 905 PM CDT. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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. 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 4000 9249 3977 9253 3964 9233 3994 9234 $$ NRR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Worth | 43 min |
| May 24, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Sullivan | 41 min |
| May 24, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 51 min |
| May 24, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Sullivan | 34 min |
| May 24, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Macon | 61 min |
| May 24, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Gentry, Harrison | 59 min |
| May 24, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt, Nodaway | 54 min |
| May 24, 7:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Holt | 6 hr |
| May 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn | 45 min |
| May 24, 7:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 6 hr |
| May 24, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer | 44 min |
| May 24, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | DeKalb | 58 min |
| May 24, 8:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 6 hr |
| May 24, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Macon | 50 min |
| May 24, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan, Putnam | 53 min |
| May 24, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Sullivan | 30 min |
| May 24, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair | 37 min |
| May 24, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 58 min |
| May 24, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson, Lafayette | 65 min |
| May 24, 9:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Macon | 6 hr |
| May 24, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Ray | 61 min |
| May 24, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Jackson | 44 min |
| May 24, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 83 min |
| May 24, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 65 min |
| May 24, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 63 min |
| May 24, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 62 min |
| May 24, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 41 min |
| May 24, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 45 min |
| May 24, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 64 min |
| May 25, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 41 min |
| May 25, 12:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper | 6 hr |
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.