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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 2:03 PM CDT for Harrison County, Missouri. It was in force for 57 min. 4 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, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Harrison County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:22 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 1 W Bethany, MO | GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED ON US-136 1 MILE WEST OF BETHANY. |
| May 27, 2:22 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 1 W Bethany, MO | GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED ON US-136 1 MILE WEST OF BETHANY. |
| May 27, 2:25 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | Bethany, MO | TENNIS TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED ON THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF BETHANY |
| May 27, 2:25 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | Bethany, MO | TENNIS TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED ON THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF BETHANY |
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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -497 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1418 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
962 WFUS53 KEAX 271903 TOREAX MOC081-272000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 203 PM CDT THU MAY 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HARRISON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BETHANY * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 158 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DENVER...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... BETHANY BY 220 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 4053 9420 4020 9421 4019 9381 4047 9380 $$ 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, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Worth | 48 min |
| May 27, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Gentry | 47 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.