Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 3:47 PM CDT for Andrew County, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 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, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Andrew County, MO, Nodaway County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
| May 24, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 817 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
893 WFUS53 KEAX 242047 TOREAX MOC003-147-242130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 346 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ANDREW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI SOUTHERN NODAWAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 342 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH MOUND CITY OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARYVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... BARNARD BY 420 PM CDT. GUILFORD BY 425 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 4031 9511 4010 9505 4009 9464 4034 9465 $$ NRR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 57 min |
| May 24, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 55 min |
| May 24, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Holt | 51 min |
| May 24, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 45 min |
| May 24, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Holt | 28 min |
| May 24, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 40 min |
| May 24, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton, DeKalb | 63 min |
| May 24, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 44 min |
| May 24, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry | 63 min |
| May 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | DeKalb | 40 min |
| May 24, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Gentry | 65 min |
| May 24, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 63 min |
| May 24, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Daviess | 61 min |
| May 24, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 66 min |
| May 24, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Harrison | 66 min |
| May 24, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 48 min |
| May 24, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Livingston | 62 min |
| May 24, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Grundy | 58 min |
| May 24, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Mercer | 60 min |
| May 24, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Nodaway | 69 min |
| May 24, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn | 64 min |
| May 24, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Livingston | 51 min |
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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.