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Tornado Warning 63, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 15, 2006Carroll County, Ray County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2006, 9:22 PM CDT for Carroll County, Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 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 15, 2006, 9:22 PM CDT (02:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2006, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Carroll County, MO, Ray County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 15, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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: 1495 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 439 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 519 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.1
Supercell composite: 8.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KEAX 160223
TOREAX
MOC033-177-160300-
/O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0063.060416T0222Z-060416T0300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
922 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN RAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  NORTHWESTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 920 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  A CONFIRMED TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF POLO...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF
  RICHMOND. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. 
  THIS STORM HAS A LONG HISTORY OF TORNADO AND FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTS.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN RAY
  AND NORTHWESTERN CARROLL COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF TINA.

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.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY...OR CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL
DIRECTLY AT 1-800-438-0596.

LAT...LON 3950 9395 3938 9393 3951 9340 3963 9351

$$

HUDSON

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KEAX 160239
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
940 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2006

MOC033-177-160300-
/O.CON.KEAX.TO.W.0063.000000T0000Z-060416T0300Z/
CARROLL MO-RAY MO-
940 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN RAY AND
NORTHWESTERN CARROLL COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM CDT...

AT 935 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF BRAYMER...OR 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF
CARROLLTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT 
AGENCY...OR CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL 
DIRECTLY AT 1-800-438-0596.

LAT...LON 3950 9395 3946 9391 3957 9344 3963 9351

$$

HUDSON

000 
WWUS53 KEAX 160301
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1000 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2006

MOC033-177-160310-
/O.EXP.KEAX.TO.W.0063.000000T0000Z-060416T0300Z/
CARROLL MO-RAY MO-
1000 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN RAY AND NORTHWESTERN CARROLL
COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...

AT 955 PM 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. A 
TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY 
FOR THE STORM...WHICH HAS MOVED NORTH.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY...OR CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL
DIRECTLY AT 1-800-438-0596.

LAT...LON 3950 9395 3946 9391 3957 9344 3963 9351

$$

HUDSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt	33 min
Apr 15, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Gentry, Nodaway	40 min
Apr 15, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, Gentry, Harrison	39 min
Apr 15, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	34 min
Apr 15, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	30 min
Apr 15, 8:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Daviess, DeKalb	26 min
Apr 15, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	34 min
Apr 15, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Livingston	47 min
Apr 15, 9:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Livingston	28 min
Apr 15, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	46 min
Apr 15, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Putnam, Sullivan	41 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 2006 Every tornado warning in 2006 Tornadoes in 2006

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.