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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 9:37 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Missouri. It was in force for 83 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, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lafayette County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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.
334 WFUS53 KEAX 250237 TOREAX MOC107-250400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 937 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 936 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKE LOTAWANA...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF HARRISONVILLE...AND MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... BATES CITY BY 950 PM CDT. ODESSA BY 955 PM CDT. MAYVIEW BY 1005 PM CDT. HIGGINSVILLE BY 1015 PM CDT. CONCORDIA BY 1025 PM CDT. THE TOWN OF AULLVILLE IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM. 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 3912 9411 3893 9410 3895 9357 3915 9354 $$ 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, 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.