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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2006, 6:51 PM CST for Linn County, Kansas; Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2006, 6:51 PM CST (00:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2006, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Linn County, KS, Bates County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:00 PM CST | HAIL 1.75 | Pleasanton, KS | |
| Mar 30, 7:00 PM CST | HAIL 2.75 | Pleasanton, KS | |
| Mar 30, 7:10 PM CST | FUNNEL CLOUD | 7 N Hume, MO | |
| Mar 30, 7:20 PM CST | HAIL 2.75 | 5 W Butler, MO | |
| Mar 30, 7:20 PM CST | HAIL 3 | Virginia, MO | |
| Mar 30, 7:21 PM CST | HAIL 2.75 | 5 W Butler, MO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 1075 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 340 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KEAX 310052 TOREAX KSC107-MOC013-310130- /O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0048.060331T0051Z-060331T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 651 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN BATES COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI SOUTHEASTERN LINN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT 649 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MOUND CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... PRESCOTT BY 655 PM CST. PLEASANTON BY 700 PM CST. 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUME BY 705 PM CST. THE TOWNS OF AMORET AND FOSTER ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN LINN AND WESTERN BATES COUNTIES. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FURTHER NORTH...FROM LA CYGNE TO ADRIAN. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR 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. LAT...LON 3815 9492 3802 9490 3806 9442 3837 9438 $$ HUDSON
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KEAX 310108 SVSEAX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 708 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006 KSC107-MOC013-310130- /O.CON.KEAX.TO.W.0048.000000T0000Z-060331T0130Z/ LINN KS-BATES MO- 708 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN BATES AND SOUTHEASTERN LINN COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM CST... AT 703 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD. THIS FUNNEL WAS LOCATED EAST OF PLEASANTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN LINN AND WESTERN BATES COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF AMORET AND FOSTER. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3815 9492 3802 9490 3806 9442 3837 9438 $$ HUDSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 6:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 6:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 6:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 6:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 38 min |
| Mar 30, 6:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 6:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Nodaway | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 6:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Ray | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 7:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Andrew | 13 min |
| Mar 30, 7:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Bates | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 7:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette, Ray, Saline | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 7:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Andrew, Gentry, Nodaway | 23 min |
| Mar 30, 7:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Bates, Henry, Johnson | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 7:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Andrew, Gentry, Nodaway, Worth | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 8:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Harrison | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 8:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 8:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis, Saline | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 8:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cooper | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 8:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Saline | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 9:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 17 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.