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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 30, 20064 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2006, 7:43 PM CST for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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, 7:43 PM CST (01:43 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2006, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Andrew County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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, 8:10 PM CST	TORNADO	6 W Hatfield, MO	POWER FLASHES IN DISTANCE

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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KEAX 310144
TOREAX
MOC003-075-147-227-310215-
/O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0053.060331T0143Z-060331T0215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
743 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN ANDREW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
  NORTHERN GENTRY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
  SOUTHEASTERN WORTH COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
  SOUTHEASTERN NODAWAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 815 PM CST

* AT 728 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR   
  FILLMORE. ANOTHER TORNADO WAS REPORTED NORTH OF SAVANNAH AROUND    
  711 PM. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT    
  60 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN
  ANDREW...NORTHERN GENTRY...SOUTHEASTERN NODAWAY AND SOUTHEASTERN
  WORTH COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF STANBERRY...GENTRY...
  ALBANY...WORTH...DENVER AND ALLENDALE.

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 4033 9462 4020 9469 4007 9478 4026 9422
      4056 9425

$$

KOCH

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KEAX 310157
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
755 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

MOC003-310205-
/O.CAN.KEAX.TO.W.0053.000000T0000Z-060331T0215Z/
ANDREW MO-
755 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR ANDREW COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

AT 752 PM CST...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.

LAT...LON 4033 9462 4020 9469 4017 9461 4026 9422
      4056 9425

$$

MOC075-147-227-310215-
/O.CON.KEAX.TO.W.0053.000000T0000Z-060331T0215Z/
NODAWAY MO-WORTH MO-GENTRY MO-
755 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN GENTRY...
SOUTHEASTERN WORTH AND SOUTHEASTERN NODAWAY COUNTIES UNTIL 815 PM
CST...

AT 752 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 
WEST OF STANBERRY.  THIS FUNNEL CLOUD WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  STANBERRY AT 8 PM CST
  AND GENTRY BY 815 PM CST.

THE TOWNS OF WORTH ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM.

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 4033 9462 4020 9469 4017 9461 4026 9422
      4056 9425

$$

KOCH

000 
WWUS53 KEAX 310213
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
813 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

MOC075-147-227-310223-
/O.EXP.KEAX.TO.W.0053.000000T0000Z-060331T0215Z/
NODAWAY MO-WORTH MO-GENTRY MO-
813 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN GENTRY...SOUTHEASTERN WORTH AND
SOUTHEASTERN NODAWAY COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 815 PM CST...

AT 812 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED...AND NO
LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE...THE
TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 4033 9462 4020 9469 4017 9461 4026 9422
      4056 9425

$$

KOCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 6:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	35 min
Mar 30, 6:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	38 min
Mar 30, 6:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	49 min
Mar 30, 6:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EAX	Bates	39 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, 7:58 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 Emergency	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.