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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 7:11 PM CDT for Sullivan County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 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, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 257 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.
186 WFUS53 KEAX 250011 CCA TOREAX MOC211-250045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 710 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SULLIVAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 708 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A TORNADO NEAR HARRIS...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF TRENTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BOYNTON BY 720 PM CDT. POLLOCK BY 725 PM CDT. GREEN CITY BY 730 PM CDT. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE BASEBALL SIZE HAIL. LAT...LON 4036 9333 4019 9336 4017 9287 4037 9289 $$ 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, 7:14 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 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 |
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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.