Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 1:42 PM CDT for Worth County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 min. 8 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2004, 1:42 PM CDT (18:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Worth County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 1:46 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Grant City, MO | |
| May 27, 1:46 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Grant City, MO | |
| May 27, 1:53 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 2 S Grant City, MO | |
| May 27, 1:53 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 2 S Grant City, MO | |
| May 27, 1:55 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | Grant City, MO | 60 TO 70 MPH WINDS REPORTED |
| May 27, 1:55 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | Grant City, MO | 60 TO 70 MPH WINDS REPORTED |
| May 27, 1:55 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Grant City, MO | |
| May 27, 1:55 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Grant City, MO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 27, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 906 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
047 WFUS53 KEAX 271842 TOREAX MOC227-271930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 142 PM CDT THU MAY 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WORTH COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 141 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SHERIDAN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BEDFORD IA...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... GRANT CITY BY 150 PM CDT. ALLENDALE BY 200 PM CDT. THE TOWN OF ATHELSTAN 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. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4058 9462 4041 9460 4040 9425 4056 9428 $$ NRR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Bates | 49 min |
| May 26, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Bates | 31 min |
| May 27, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 52 min |
| May 27, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Worth | 61 min |
| May 27, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Gentry | 47 min |
| May 27, 2:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Harrison | 57 min |
| May 27, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Daviess, Grundy | 49 min |
| May 27, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn, Livingston | 61 min |
| May 27, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 43 min |
| May 27, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 60 min |
| May 27, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 59 min |
| May 27, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Clinton | 55 min |
| May 27, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Macon | 67 min |
| May 27, 4:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 6 hr |
| May 27, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 56 min |
| May 27, 4:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Macon | 6 hr |
| May 27, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 53 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.