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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 27, 2004Buchanan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 3:46 PM CDT for Buchanan County, Missouri. It was in force for 59 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 27, 2004, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2004, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Buchanan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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 27, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KEAX 272046 CCA
TOREAX
MOC021-272145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...COR FOR FORMAT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
345 PM CDT THU MAY 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI 
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ST JOSEPH

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 343 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ST JOSEPH...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
   EASTON BY 435 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.

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO SAFE
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER
YOUR HEAD.

LAT...LON 3983 9489 3968 9487 3968 9462 3980 9462

$$

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, 2:03 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.