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Tornado Warning 75, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Oct 29, 2004, 7:28 PM CDT for Pettis County, Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 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, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pettis County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KEAX 300028
TOREAX
MOC159-195-300115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
727 PM CDT FRI OCT 29 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
PETTIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI.
SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI.
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT.
* AT 722 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HOUSTONIA...OR 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF
SEDALIA...AND MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. POWER FLASHES WERE REPORTED
SOUTH OF SWEET SPRINGS BY SWEET SPRINGS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE...
NEAR NELSON BY 740 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
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 3898 9342 3887 9345 3886 9307 3920 9296
3910 9331
$$
HUDSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 64 min |
| Oct 29, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Sullivan | 48 min |
| Oct 29, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 38 min |
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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.