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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 4, 2005Johnson County, Lafayette County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 6:57 AM CDT for Johnson County, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 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: Jun 4, 2005, 6:57 AM CDT (11:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2005, 7:30 AM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:00 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1776 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KEAX 041157
TOREAX
MOC101-107-041230-
/O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0015.050604T1157Z-050604T1230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
657 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  SOUTHEASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 730 AM CDT

* AT 655 AM CDT...LAW ENFORNCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR 
  HOLDEN...OR 11 MILES WEST OF WARRENSBURG. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED 
  THIS TORNADO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
   WARRENSBURG BY 710 AM 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 3877 9396 3870 9394 3865 9389 3887 9349
      3898 9351

$$

MJ

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KEAX 041219
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
719 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

MOC101-107-041230-
/O.CON.KEAX.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-050604T1230Z/
LAFAYETTE MO-JOHNSON MO-
719 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR NORTHEASTERN JOHNSON AND
SOUTHEASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 730 AM CDT...

AT 715 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FAYETTEVILLE...OR 7 MILES
NORTHEAST OF WARRENSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

*AT 707 AM CDT...TRAINED SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND 2 
MILES SOUTHWEST OF WARRENSBURG.

THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN JOHNSON
AND SOUTHEASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTIES.

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 3887 9373 3883 9370 3878 9366 3887 9349
      3898 9351

$$

MJ

000 
WWUS53 KEAX 041230
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
730 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

MOC101-107-041240-
/O.EXP.KEAX.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-050604T1230Z/
LAFAYETTE MO-JOHNSON MO-
730 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN JOHNSON AND SOUTHEASTERN
LAFAYETTE COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...

AT 725 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 3887 9373 3883 9370 3878 9366 3887 9349
      3898 9351

$$

MJ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 2:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Clay, Jackson	6 hr
Jun 4, 6:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Johnson	46 min
Jun 4, 7:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Lafayette	6 hr
Jun 4, 7:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline	46 min
Jun 4, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Holt	51 min
Jun 4, 5:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Andrew, Nodaway	56 min
Jun 4, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Holt	27 min
Jun 4, 5:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Holt	6 hr
Jun 4, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Gentry, Nodaway, Worth	46 min
Jun 4, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	36 min
Jun 4, 6:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Nodaway	6 hr
Jun 4, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison, Worth	30 min
Jun 4, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Gentry, Nodaway	34 min
Jun 4, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	46 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.