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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 8:02 PM CDT for DeKalb County, Missouri. It was in force for 58 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, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County DeKalb County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:04 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, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 WFUS53 KEAX 250102 TOREAX MOC063-250200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 802 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 800 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR KING CITY...OR ABOUT 26 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARYVILLE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STORMS THIS EVENING HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... UNION STAR BY 810 PM CDT. FAIRPORT BY 815 PM CDT. AMITY BY 825 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. LAT...LON 4000 9465 3981 9460 3984 9423 4003 9426 $$ 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, 8:09 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.