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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 2013Worth County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2013, 8:34 PM CDT for Worth County, Missouri. It was in force for 26 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: May 26, 2013, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2013, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.25 in

County Worth County, MO

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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 nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 3377 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 272 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.3
Supercell composite: 16.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

896 
WFUS53 KEAX 270134
TOREAX
MOC227-270200-
/O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0004.130527T0134Z-130527T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
834 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN WORTH COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 829 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRANT CITY...AND MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS ALSO REPORTED
  NORTH OF BLOCKTON WITH THIS STORM.

  IMPACT...MOBILE HOMES WILL BE HEAVILY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
           SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL
           OCCUR. FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DEADLY TO PEOPLE AND ANIMALS.
           EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE IS LIKELY.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GRANT CITY AND ALLENDALE.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 4052 9423 4051 9423 4039 9442 4057 9456
      4058 9432
TIME...MOT...LOC 0133Z 322DEG 15KT 4057 9446

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.25IN

$$

LAFLIN

1 follow-up statement

956 
WWUS53 KEAX 270146
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
846 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2013

MOC227-270200-
/O.CON.KEAX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-130527T0200Z/
WORTH MO-
846 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2013

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WORTH COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM
CDT...

AT 844 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR GRANT CITY...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.

IMPACT...MOBILE HOMES WILL BE HEAVILY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
         SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL
         OCCUR. FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DEADLY TO PEOPLE AND ANIMALS.
         EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE IS LIKELY.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GRANT CITY AND ALLENDALE.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 4052 9423 4051 9423 4039 9442 4057 9456
      4058 9432
TIME...MOT...LOC 0145Z 322DEG 15KT 4053 9442

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.25IN

$$

LAFLIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Chariton	24 min
May 26, 8:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	3 hr
May 26, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison, Worth	31 min
May 26, 10:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Gentry	30 min
May 27, 12:38 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Howard	6 hr
May 27, 3:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	53 min
May 27, 4:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Andrew, Holt, Nodaway	41 min
May 27, 5:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Buchanan	51 min
May 27, 5:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Andrew, Gentry, Worth	43 min
May 27, 6:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	DeKalb, Gentry	42 min
May 27, 8:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Caldwell, Livingston	36 min
May 27, 8:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Macon	5 days
May 27, 8:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Carroll	24 min
May 27, 9:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Saline	37 min
May 27, 9:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	8 days
May 27, 9:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	6 days
May 27, 12:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Pettis	35 min
May 27, 12:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	4 days
May 27, 12:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	4 hr
May 27, 12:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	3 days
May 27, 12:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton	9 days
May 27, 1:23 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	6 days
May 27, 2:44 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Nodaway	15 hr
May 27, 2:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	38 hr
May 27, 2:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	5 days
May 27, 2:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	6 days
May 27, 3:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 20 more	35 hr
May 27, 4:27 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	37 hr
May 27, 4:27 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	5 days

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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.