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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 5:24 PM CDT for Harrison County, Missouri. It was in force for 66 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
- May 24, 2004, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Emergency
- Tornado emergency
County Harrison County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 817 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
026 WFUS53 KEAX 242224 TOREAX MOC081-242330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 523 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HARRISON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BETHANY * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 518 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO NEAR ALBANY...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... NEW HAMPTON BY 535 PM CDT. BETHANY BY 555 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 THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG TO VIOLENT TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 4040 9422 4016 9421 4014 9381 4048 9380 $$ NRR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 57 min |
| May 24, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 55 min |
| May 24, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Holt | 51 min |
| May 24, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 45 min |
| May 24, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Andrew, Nodaway | 43 min |
| May 24, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Holt | 28 min |
| May 24, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 40 min |
| May 24, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton, DeKalb | 63 min |
| May 24, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 44 min |
| May 24, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry | 63 min |
| May 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | DeKalb | 40 min |
| May 24, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Gentry | 65 min |
| May 24, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 63 min |
| May 24, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Daviess | 61 min |
| May 24, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 66 min |
| May 24, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 48 min |
| May 24, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Livingston | 62 min |
| May 24, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Grundy | 58 min |
| May 24, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Mercer | 60 min |
| May 24, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Nodaway | 69 min |
| May 24, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn | 64 min |
| May 24, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Livingston | 51 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.