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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 29, 2004DeKalb County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 9:02 PM CDT for DeKalb County, Missouri. It was in force for 88 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 29, 2004, 9:02 PM CDT (02:02 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 88 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Emergency: Tornado emergency

County DeKalb County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 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 29, 10:30 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 W Maysville, MO	NEAR INTERSECTION OF J HIGHWAY AND 6 HIGHWAY.
May 29, 10:30 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 W Maysville, MO	NEAR INTERSECTION OF J HIGHWAY AND 6 HIGHWAY.
May 29, 10:40 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 N Maysville, MO
May 29, 10:40 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 N Maysville, 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 29, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 2909 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1169 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 282 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.8
Supercell composite: 18.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

864 
WFUS53 KEAX 300202
TOREAX
MOC063-300330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
902 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 900 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PERRIN...OR ABOUT 23 MILES EAST OF ST
  JOSEPH...AND MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
   AMITY BY 945 PM CDT.
   MAYSVILLE BY 950 PM CDT.
   FAIRPORT BY 1015 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 3976 9458 3975 9427 4003 9427 4003 9456

$$

HUDSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	41 min
May 29, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	DeKalb	65 min
May 29, 7:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Buchanan	48 min
May 29, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	58 min
May 29, 8:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clinton	8 hr
May 29, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Clinton	62 min
May 29, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, DeKalb	59 min
May 29, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	70 min
May 29, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew	62 min
May 29, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess	95 min
May 29, 9:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	DeKalb	7 hr
May 29, 10:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison	6 hr
May 29, 10:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess	8 hr
May 29, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry	67 min
May 29, 10:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	DeKalb	93 min
May 29, 10:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison	12 hr
May 29, 10:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Daviess, Harrison	94 min
May 29, 11:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Grundy	58 min
May 29, 11:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Mercer	56 min
May 30, 12:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Nodaway, Worth	12 hr
May 30, 12:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Mercer	12 hr
May 30, 2:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Putnam	10 hr
May 30, 3:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clinton, DeKalb	8 hr
May 30, 4:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Grundy, Sullivan	7 hr
May 30, 11:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Livingston	46 min
May 30, 11:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Linn	62 min
May 30, 12:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Adair, Macon	88 min
May 30, 12:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Sullivan	52 min
May 30, 12:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton	56 min
May 30, 1:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	58 min
May 30, 1:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	67 min
May 30, 1:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Pettis	65 min
May 30, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Randolph	59 min
May 30, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	62 min
May 30, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	64 min
May 30, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	32 min
May 30, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Randolph	35 min

Nearby

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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.