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Tornado Warning 70, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2004, 11:03 PM CDT for Worth County, Missouri. It was in force for 57 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
- Aug 26, 2004, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2004, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Worth County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 11:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Grant City, MO | |
| Aug 26, 11:20 PM CDT | TORNADO | 6 W Worth, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1656 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1393 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KEAX 270403 TOREAX MOC227-270500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1103 PM CDT THU AUG 26 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WORTH COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1101 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A ROTATING WALL CLOUD NEAR PICKERING IN EASTERN NODAWAY COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SHERIDAN BY 1120 PM CDT. WORTH BY 1150 PM CDT. GRANT CITY BY 1155 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. LAT...LON 4057 9463 4039 9461 4040 9424 4057 9424 $$ SEAMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 43 min |
| Aug 26, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 64 min |
| Aug 26, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 10:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 10:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Harrison | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 11:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Mercer | 54 min |
| Aug 26, 11:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Harrison | 42 min |
| Aug 27, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer | 54 min |
| Aug 27, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer, Putnam | 75 min |
| Aug 27, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Putnam, Schuyler | 82 min |
| Aug 27, 5:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Mercer | 6 hr |
| Aug 27, 5:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Putnam, Sullivan | 6 hr |
| Aug 27, 5:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Grundy | 6 hr |
| Aug 27, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Sullivan | 78 min |
| Aug 27, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 66 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.