Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 2004
Tornado Watch 275
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 24, 2004, 1:10 PM CDT for 33 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2004, 1:10 PM CDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Henry County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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.
Warnings issued inside it
45 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Andrew, Nodaway | 43 min |
| May 24, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 56 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, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 45 min |
| May 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | DeKalb | 40 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, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 57 min |
| May 24, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 60 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, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Riley, Washington | 46 min |
| May 24, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Livingston | 51 min |
| May 24, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall | 46 min |
| May 24, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 48 min |
| May 24, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage, Wabaunsee | 30 min |
| May 24, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 39 min |
| May 24, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt, Nodaway | 54 min |
| May 24, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 62 min |
| May 24, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 74 min |
| May 24, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 67 min |
| May 24, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osage | 47 min |
| May 24, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | DeKalb | 58 min |
| May 24, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 24 min |
| May 24, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 53 min |
| May 24, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth | 67 min |
| May 24, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 63 min |
| May 24, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 17 min |
| May 24, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan, Putnam | 53 min |
| May 24, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Sedgwick, Sumner | 60 min |
| May 24, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 45 min |
| May 24, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 63 min |
| May 24, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin | 45 min |
| May 24, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin, Osage | 57 min |
| May 24, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 58 min |
| May 24, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson, Lafayette | 65 min |
| May 24, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Ray | 61 min |
| May 24, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Jackson | 44 min |
| May 24, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 83 min |
| May 24, 9:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin | 36 min |
| May 24, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 29 min |
| May 24, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 39 min |
| May 24, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey | 34 min |
| May 24, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 46 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chase and 27 more | 2 hr |
| May 24, 12:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 26 more | 83 min |
| May 24, 3:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 28 more | 92 min |
| May 24, 3:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cowley, Greenwood, Sedgwick, Sumner | 93 min |
| May 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 5:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic and 1 more | 94 min |
| May 24, 5:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 9 more | 95 min |
| May 24, 6:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 31 more | 48 min |
| May 23, 8:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson, Saint Charles, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 65 min |
| May 23, 9:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Christian, Crawford, Dent, Douglas, Greene and 11 more | 96 min |
| May 24, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Daviess, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison and 4 more | 11 hr |
| May 24, 1:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Madison and 9 more | 96 min |
| May 24, 2:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy and 5 more | 96 min |
| May 24, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Carroll, Chariton, Clark and 19 more | 5 hr |
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.