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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 24, 2004Macon County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 8:10 PM CDT for Macon County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 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, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 50 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), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 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, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 286 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

703 
WFUS53 KEAX 250110
TOREAX
MOC121-250200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
810 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS EXTENDED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MACON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 900 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 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ETHEL...OR ABOUT 24 MILES
  SOUTH OF KIRKSVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
   AXTELL BY 815 PM CDT.
   ATLANTA BY 820 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.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO...MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO
SEE. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE
TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

LAT...LON 3973 9233 3973 9282 4003 9283 4003 9238
      3995 9231

$$

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, 8:22 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.