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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 21, 2005Cooper County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 21, 2005, 3:49 PM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It was in force for 26 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: Apr 21, 2005, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 2005, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cooper County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 234 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: 780 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 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 212049
TOREAX
MOC053-212115-
/O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0002.050421T2050Z-050421T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
350 PM CDT THU APR 21 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN COOPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 347 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PRAIRIE HOME...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF
  CALIFORNIA...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN
  COOPER COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF PRAIRIE HOME.

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 3888 9270 3870 9272 3869 9263 3887 9255

$$
SCHMIT

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KEAX 212056
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
353 PM CDT THU APR 21 2005

MOC053-212115-
/O.CON.KEAX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050421T2115Z/
COOPER MO-
353 PM CDT THU APR 21 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHEASTERN COOPER COUNTY UNTIL
415 PM CDT...

AT 352 PM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED GOLF BALL 
SIZED HAIL IN PISGAH AND QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN PRAIRIE HOME. THIS 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES NORTH OF CALIFORNIA...AND 
MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...WILL 
AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN COOPER COUNTY...INCLUDING 
THE TOWN OF PRAIRIE HOME.

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 3888 9270 3870 9272 3869 9263 3887 9255

$$
SCHMIT

000 
WWUS53 KEAX 212107
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
406 PM CDT THU APR 21 2005

MOC053-212116-
/O.CAN.KEAX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050421T2115Z/
COOPER MO-
406 PM CDT THU APR 21 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COOPER COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...

AT 403 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE 
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE 
AREA...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. 
THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED IN PISGAH AND QUARTER SIZED HAIL 
WAS REPORTED IN PRAIRIE HOME WITH THIS STORM.


LAT...LON 3888 9270 3870 9272 3869 9263 3887 9255

$$
SCHMIT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 12:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt, Nodaway	6 hr
Apr 21, 8:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison	38 min
Apr 21, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	45 min
Apr 21, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	33 min
Apr 21, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	52 min
Apr 21, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Bates, Henry	47 min
Apr 21, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Platte	40 min
Apr 21, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	53 min
Apr 21, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	51 min
Apr 21, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte, Ray	38 min
Apr 21, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Ray	55 min
Apr 21, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	44 min
Apr 21, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Saline	34 min
Apr 21, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Lafayette, Ray	56 min
Apr 21, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte, Ray	44 min
Apr 21, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Ray	39 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.