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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 13, 2004Nodaway County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2004, 7:36 PM CDT for Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 54 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 13, 2004, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Nodaway County, MO

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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.

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 13, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 84 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -158 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2073 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KEAX 140036
TOREAX
MOC147-140130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
736 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NODAWAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MARYVILLE

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 730 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CLEARMONT...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
   PICKERING BY 755 PM CDT.
   RAVENWOOD BY 810 PM CDT.
   CLYDE BY 815 PM CDT.

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

LAT...LON 4049 9465 4049 9465 4042 9465 4016 9468
      4018 9506 4034 9515 4059 9507 4059 9467
      4059 9467

$$
SCHMIT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	67 min
Jun 13, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Nodaway	46 min
Jun 13, 8:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Gentry	87 min
Jun 13, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison	66 min
Jun 13, 9:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Daviess	89 min
Jun 13, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Livingston	65 min
Jun 13, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	65 min
Jun 13, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	76 min
Jun 14, 12:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	57 min
Jun 14, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard, Randolph	88 min
Jun 14, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	52 min
Jun 14, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	90 min
Jun 14, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	46 min
Jun 14, 4:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Howard, Saline	8 hr
Jun 14, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	88 min
Jun 14, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	87 min
Jun 14, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll	94 min
Jun 14, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton	90 min
Jun 14, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	69 min
Jun 14, 6:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton	8 hr
Jun 14, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	90 min
Jun 14, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	79 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.