Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 3:14 PM CDT for Linn County, Livingston County, Missouri. It was in force for 61 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, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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, 3:34 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 5 Ene Chula, MO | |
| May 27, 3:34 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 5 Ene Chula, MO | |
| May 27, 3:53 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Brookfield, MO | |
| May 27, 3:53 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Brookfield, 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, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 227 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.
099
WFUS53 KEAX 272014
TOREAX
MOC115-117-272115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
313 PM CDT THU MAY 27 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
LINN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
EASTERN LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 415 PM CDT
* AT 254 CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
TRENTON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AND
80 MPH WINDS WERE ALSO REPORTED IN TRENTON.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
CHULA BY 320 PM CDT.
MEADVILLE BY 340 PM CDT.
BROOKFIELD BY 355 PM CDT.
MARCELINE BY 405 PM CDT.
THE TOWN OF LACLEDE 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.
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE
SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS WELL
AWAY FROM THE STORM CENTER.
LAT...LON 4003 9286 3972 9286 3972 9336 3965 9344
3966 9346 3996 9363 3996 9337 4003 9334
$$
KOCHThe 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, 2:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Harrison | 57 min |
| May 27, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Daviess, Grundy | 49 min |
| May 27, 3:32 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.