Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 5:15 PM CDT for Holt County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 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, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2005, 5:42 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Holt County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 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 042215 TOREAX MOC087-042245- /O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0018.050604T2215Z-050604T2245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 515 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 510 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NEW POINT...OR 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST JOSEPH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN HOLT COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF NEW POINT. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...AS WELL AS GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...SEEK SHELTER NOW 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 3995 9522 3995 9503 4026 9509 4021 9530 $$ SEAMAN
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KEAX 042242 SVSEAX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 541 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 MOC087-042251- /O.CAN.KEAX.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-050604T2245Z/ HOLT MO- 541 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN HOLT COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 537 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE EITHER WEAKENED OR MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND BACK INTO NORTHEAST KANSAS...AND WILL LIKELY AFFECT HOLT COUNTY THROUGH THIS EVENING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM. LAT...LON 3995 9522 3995 9503 4026 9509 4021 9530 $$ SEAMAN
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, 6:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 33 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, 5:49 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.