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Tornado Warning 61, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 13, 2004Nodaway County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2004, 8:29 PM CDT for Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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, 8:29 PM CDT (01:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Nodaway County, MO

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 1087 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1779 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

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

095 
WFUS53 KEAX 140129
TOREAX
MOC147-140215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN NODAWAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 749 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR   
ELMO AND GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL AT PICKERING AT 810 PM CDT.


* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
   CLYDE BY 835 PM CDT.



LAT...LON 4042 9471 4039 9466 4039 9463 4038 9462
      4030 9461 4029 9463 4017 9463 4028 9487
      4043 9478

$$
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, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Nodaway	54 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.