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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 4, 2010Randolph County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 4, 2010, 7:03 PM CDT for Randolph County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 min. 7 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: Apr 4, 2010, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2010, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Randolph County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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
Apr 4, 7:09 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Higbee, MO	POWER LINES DOWN
Apr 4, 7:09 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	Wnw Mount Airy, MO	ESTIMATED 60 TO 70 MPH WINDS, SMALL TREES DOWN, PENNY SIZED HAIL
Apr 4, 7:13 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Renick, MO	RV ROLLED AND DESTROYED NEAR RENICK
Apr 4, 7:17 PM CDT	HAIL 1	5 E Moberly, MO
Apr 4, 7:18 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Clark, MO	POWER LINES DOWN
Apr 4, 7:18 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	Moberly, MO
Apr 4, 7:21 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	Moberly, MO	GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL COVERING THE ROADS

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
Apr 4, 3:34 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 276 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 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.

158 
WFUS53 KEAX 050003
TOREAX
MOC175-050030-
/O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0002.100405T0003Z-100405T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
703 PM CDT SUN APR 4 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 700 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 4 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF SALISBURY. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING   
  EAST AT 50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MOBERLY...HIGBEE...CLARK AND RENICK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID
WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE
CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN PLEASANT HILL.

&&

LAT...LON 3925 9231 3927 9251 3932 9268 3944 9269
      3947 9230
TIME...MOT...LOC 0003Z 270DEG 47KT 3936 9255

$$

DEROCHE

1 follow-up statement

191 
WWUS53 KEAX 050014
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
714 PM CDT SUN APR 4 2010

MOC175-050030-
/O.CON.KEAX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-100405T0030Z/
RANDOLPH MO-
714 PM CDT SUN APR 4 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN RANDOLPH
COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM CDT...

AT 709 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS 
STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF MOBERLY...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CLARK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN PLEASANT HILL.

&&

LAT...LON 3938 9231 3925 9232 3927 9251 3929 9257
      3945 9258 3947 9230 3938 9230
TIME...MOT...LOC 0013Z 270DEG 47KT 3935 9238

$$

DEROCHE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Randolph	30 min
Apr 4, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Randolph	15 min
Apr 4, 7:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Howard, Saline	26 min
Apr 4, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard, Randolph	24 min
Apr 4, 8:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Bates	30 min
Apr 4, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cooper, Howard	35 min
Apr 4, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	20 min
Apr 4, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	25 min
Apr 5, 6:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	28 min
Apr 5, 7:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	33 min
Apr 5, 7:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Jackson	26 min
Apr 5, 8:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Lafayette	30 min
Apr 5, 9:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Saline	33 min
Apr 5, 11:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Holt	33 min
Apr 5, 11:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	26 min
Apr 5, 11:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	23 min
Apr 5, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway	30 min
Apr 5, 12:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Nodaway	29 min
Apr 5, 12:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Nodaway	31 min
Apr 5, 12:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt, Nodaway	43 min
Apr 5, 1:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Worth	30 min

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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.