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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 12, 2004Andrew County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 7:34 PM CDT for Andrew County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 12, 2004, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Andrew County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 12, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 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: 3291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 12.3

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The text

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

815 
WFUS53 KEAX 130034
TOREAX
MOC003-130115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
734 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 731 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROSENDALE...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTH OF
  MARYVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
   WHITESVILLE BY 745 PM CDT.

THE TOWN OF REA 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.

LAT...LON 4013 9487 3997 9486 3998 9462 4013 9463

$$

MS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Worth	65 min
Jun 12, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry	70 min
Jun 12, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	65 min
Jun 12, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison	52 min
Jun 12, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess	76 min
Jun 12, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew	49 min
Jun 12, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	52 min
Jun 12, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer	64 min
Jun 12, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Harrison	75 min
Jun 12, 9:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Atchison, DeKalb, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway and 1 more	12 hr
Jun 12, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	57 min
Jun 12, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry	60 min
Jun 12, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	DeKalb	54 min
Jun 12, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Clinton	59 min
Jun 12, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison	54 min
Jun 12, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	96 min
Jun 12, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam	79 min
Jun 12, 9:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Mercer	12 hr
Jun 12, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	68 min
Jun 12, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Sullivan	66 min
Jun 12, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	80 min
Jun 12, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	75 min
Jun 12, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess	52 min
Jun 12, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	80 min
Jun 12, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll	81 min
Jun 12, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Henry	59 min
Jun 12, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis, Saline	68 min
Jun 12, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy	52 min
Jun 12, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton	75 min
Jun 12, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Sullivan	64 min
Jun 12, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Randolph	48 min
Jun 13, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.