Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004

Tornado Warning 47, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 29, 2004Caldwell County, Clinton County, Daviess County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 9:10 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Clinton County, Daviess County, Missouri. It was in force for 95 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, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2004, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 95 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Caldwell County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 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, 10:40 PM CDT	TORNADO	5 Nw Pattonsburg, MO
May 29, 10:40 PM CDT	TORNADO	5 Nw Pattonsburg, MO
May 29, 10:50 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 W Coffey, MO	JUST WEST OF INTERSTATE 35 ON HARRISON-DAVIES COUNTY LINE.
May 29, 10:50 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 W Coffey, MO	JUST WEST OF INTERSTATE 35 ON HARRISON-DAVIES COUNTY LINE.

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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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.

694 
WFUS53 KEAX 300210
TOREAX
MOC025-049-061-300345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN CALDWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
  WESTERN DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
  NORTHEASTERN CLINTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 909 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A LARGE AND 
  EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO JUST WEST OF CAMERON...OR ABOUT 31 
  MILES EAST OF ST JOSEPH...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
   WINSTON BY 925 PM CDT.
   ALTAMONT BY 930 PM CDT.
   PATTONSBURG BY 945 PM CDT.
   COFFEY BY 955 PM CDT.

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THIS
STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG TO VIOLENT TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY

LAT...LON 3966 9439 3969 9405 4012 9394 4012 9420
      3974 9423 3974 9439

$$

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, 9:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	EAX	DeKalb	88 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

Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 2004 Every tornado warning in 2004 Tornadoes in 2004

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.