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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2004, 11:11 PM CDT for Johnson County, Missouri. It was in force for 64 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, 11:11 PM CDT (04:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2004, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Johnson County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.
990 WUUS53 KEAX 250411 SVREAX MOC101-250515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1110 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1107 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CHILHOWEE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WARRENSBURG...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LEETON BY 1115 PM CDT. WHITEMAN AFB BY 1125 PM CDT. NICKEL HAIL WAS REPORTED JUST EAST OF LA TOUR WITH THIS STORM. NEAR CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. 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 3874 9401 3857 9400 3855 9354 3874 9353 $$ HUDSON
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, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 47 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 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.