Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 54, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 12:32 PM CDT for Adair County, Macon County, Missouri. It was in force for 88 min. 2 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 30, 2004, 12:32 PM CDT (17:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2004, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Adair County, MO, Macon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:33 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 30, 1:13 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | Kirksville, MO | |
| May 30, 1:13 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Kirksville, 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
417 WFUS53 KEAX 301732 TOREAX MOC001-121-301900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1230 PM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MACON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF KIRKSVILLE * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * AT 1228 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY STRONG ROTATION. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF SHELBY...OR ABOUT 30 MILES EAST OF CHILLICOTHE...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... GOLDSBERRY BY 1250 PM CDT. ELMER BY 100 PM CDT. LA PLATA BY 115 PM CDT. GIBBS BY 125 PM CDT. BRASHEAR BY 130 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. AT 1225 PM STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NORTH OF BROOKFIELD IN LINN COUNTY. ADDITIONALLY...HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 4025 9286 3978 9286 3981 9236 4026 9236 $$ 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 | 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, 11:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn | 62 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.