Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Feb 28, 2007, 10:18 PM CST for Cooper County, Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 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
- Feb 28, 2007, 10:18 PM CST (04:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2007, 10:47 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cooper County, MO, Pettis County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 7:10 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 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 010418 TOREAX MOC053-159-010500- /O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0009.070301T0418Z-070301T0500Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1018 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN COOPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI CENTRAL PETTIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 1100 PM CST * AT 1015 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTHWEST SEDALIA...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... PILOT GROVE BY 1040 PM CST. BUNCETON BY 1045 PM CST. ALTHOUGH RADAR SHOWS THIS STORM APPEARS TO BE WEAKENING...SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS CAN OFTEN PRODUCE TORNADOES...SOMETIMES STRONG...IN THEIR DECAYING STAGE. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. LAT...LON 3881 9338 3870 9331 3874 9275 3894 9284 $$ BOOKBINDER
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KEAX 010447 SVSEAX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1047 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 MOC053-159-010457- /O.CAN.KEAX.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070301T0500Z/ PETTIS MO-COOPER MO- 1047 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN COOPER AND CENTRAL PETTIS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... AT 1045 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING IS CANCELLED. HOWEVER...ANOTHER TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM NEAR WARRENSBURG WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST PETTIS COUNTY AROUND 11 PM. ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING TORNADOES...IS POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING FOR EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. LAT...LON 3881 9338 3870 9331 3874 9275 3894 9284 $$ BOOKBINDER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 46 min |
| Feb 28, 6:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 38 min |
| Feb 28, 7:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 28 min |
| Feb 28, 7:57 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Platte, Ray | 8 hr |
| Feb 28, 7:57 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Platte and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 28, 8:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Bates | 56 min |
| Feb 28, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 45 min |
| Feb 28, 8:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson | 61 min |
| Feb 28, 8:50 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Sullivan | 10 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cass | 57 min |
| Feb 28, 9:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Henry, Johnson, Pettis | 65 min |
| Feb 28, 9:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Carroll, Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson and 2 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Carroll, Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson and 2 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson, Johnson | 34 min |
| Feb 28, 10:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 39 min |
| Feb 28, 10:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 40 min |
| Feb 28, 10:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 49 min |
| Feb 28, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Saline | 35 min |
| Feb 28, 11:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 10:14 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 12:19 PM CST | Wind Advisory | EAX | Adair, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Clinton and 14 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:41 PM CST | Blowing Snow Advisory | EAX | Andrew, Atchison, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway | 7 hr |
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.