Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 49, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 10:41 PM CDT for Daviess County, Harrison County, Missouri. It was in force for 94 min. 12 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, 10:41 PM CDT (03:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2004, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Daviess County, MO, Harrison County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 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, 10:50 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. |
| May 29, 10:50 PM CDT | TORNADO | 7 N Pattonsburg, MO | MOVING NORTH-NORTHWEST. |
| May 29, 10:50 PM CDT | TORNADO | 7 N Pattonsburg, MO | MOVING NORTH-NORTHWEST. |
| May 29, 11:05 PM CDT | TORNADO | 7 N Pattonsburg, MO | 69 HIGHWAY CLOSED DUE TO DEBRIS ON ROAD. LARGE TREES AND POWER LINES OVER HIGHWAY. |
| May 29, 11:05 PM CDT | TORNADO | 9 N Pattonsburg, MO | 69 HIGHWAY CLOSED DUE TO DEBRIS ON ROAD. LARGE TREES AND POWER LINES OVER HIGHWAY. |
| May 29, 11:18 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 E Coffey, MO | MOVING NORTHEAST. |
| May 29, 11:18 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 E Coffey, MO | MOVING NORTHEAST. |
| May 29, 11:30 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 3 E Bethany, MO | |
| May 29, 11:30 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 3 E Bethany, MO | |
| May 29, 11:38 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 W Melbourne, MO | BRIEF TOUCHDOWN. |
| May 29, 11:38 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 W Melbourne, MO | BRIEF TOUCHDOWN. |
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, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KEAX 300341
TOREAX
MOC061-081-300515-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1040 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
HARRISON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BETHANY
* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
* AT 1035 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PATTONSBURG...AND MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.
* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
MCFALL BY 1045 PM CDT.
NEW HAMPTON BY 1100 PM CDT.
EAGLEVILLE BY 1125 PM CDT.
HATFIELD BY 1130 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 4015 9378 4010 9379 4006 9378 3993 9392
3993 9398 3992 9421 4047 9422 4057 9423
4058 9415 4058 9380
$$
KOCHThe 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 | EAX | DeKalb | 88 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, 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 |
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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.