Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 73, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Oct 29, 2004, 6:38 PM CDT for Grundy County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 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
- Oct 29, 2004, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Grundy County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 861 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KEAX 292338 TOREAX MOC079-300030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 638 PM CDT FRI OCT 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GRUNDY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. * UNTIL 730 PM CDT. * AT 635 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JAMESPORT...OR 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRENTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE... 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EDINBURG BY 645 PM CDT. NEAR TRENTON BY 650 PM CDT. NEAR DUNLAP BY 655 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 4013 9378 3996 9377 3998 9338 4026 9353 $$ LEINS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, Harrison | 57 min |
| Oct 29, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer | 46 min |
| Oct 29, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson, Lafayette | 43 min |
| Oct 29, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 52 min |
| Oct 29, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 47 min |
| Oct 29, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Putnam | 31 min |
| Oct 29, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 42 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.