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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 30, 2004Linn County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 11:58 AM CDT for Linn County, Missouri. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report 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 30, 2004, 11:58 AM CDT (16:58 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Linn County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 12:24 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	3 E Purdin, 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 30, 10:50 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 163 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -310 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

584 
WFUS53 KEAX 301658
TOREAX
MOC115-301800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1157 AM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LINN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 100 PM CDT

* AT 1156 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MEADVILLE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF
  CHILLICOTHE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
   LINNEUS BY 1210 PM CDT.
   PURDIN BY 1215 PM CDT.
   SHELBY BY 1225 PM CDT.
   NEW BOSTON BY 1235 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.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY 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 3982 9338 3972 9337 3971 9287 4002 9288
      4000 9336

$$

SEAMAN

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, 9:10 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, 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.