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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 8:08 PM CDT for Johnson County, Leavenworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 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, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 61 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 250108 TOREAX KSC091-103-250215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 808 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF OLATHE SOUTHERN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 804 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LAWRENCE...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... DE SOTO BY 825 PM CDT. OLATHE BY 830 PM CDT. LENEXA BY 835 PM CDT. OVERLAND PARK BY 840 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. LAT...LON 3903 9519 3881 9504 3880 9466 3901 9464 $$ HUDSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 74 min |
| May 24, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 63 min |
| May 24, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 58 min |
| May 24, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 46 min |
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.