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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2014, 5:42 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 min. 2 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
- May 10, 2014, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2014, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.75 in
Counties Lafayette County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 5:51 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 1 S Richmond, MO | |
| May 10, 6:06 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 N Lexington, MO | CONFIRMED BY STORM CHASER |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
873
WFUS53 KEAX 102242
TOREAX
MOC107-177-102315-
/O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0011.140510T2242Z-140510T2315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
542 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...
SOUTH CENTRAL RAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 538 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ORRICK...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LEXINGTON...HENRIETTA...HARDIN AND CAMDEN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND HAS CAUSED
DAMAGE TO THE TOWN OF ORRICK. TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR STORM
SHELTER NOW!
&&
LAT...LON 3928 9383 3914 9386 3918 9407 3926 9407
TIME...MOT...LOC 2242Z 274DEG 20KT 3921 9404
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN
$$
CDB1 follow-up statement
969
WWUS53 KEAX 102254
SVSEAX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
554 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2014
MOC107-177-102315-
/O.CON.KEAX.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-140510T2315Z/
LAFAYETTE MO-RAY MO-
554 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2014
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL RAY AND
NORTH CENTRAL LAFAYETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM CDT...
AT 552 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR HENRIETTA...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LEXINGTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. TAKE COVER IN A
BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER NOW!
&&
LAT...LON 3917 9403 3926 9401 3928 9383 3914 9386
TIME...MOT...LOC 2254Z 277DEG 22KT 3920 9394
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN
$$
CDBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Nodaway | 52 min |
| May 10, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt, Nodaway | 47 min |
| May 10, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Nodaway, Worth | 42 min |
| May 10, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt, Nodaway | 51 min |
| May 10, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Harrison | 48 min |
| May 10, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 46 min |
| May 10, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Clinton | 40 min |
| May 10, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Nodaway | 57 min |
| May 10, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Mercer | 50 min |
| May 10, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Platte | 40 min |
| May 10, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray | 49 min |
| May 10, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Ray | 30 min |
| May 10, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | DeKalb, Gentry | 53 min |
| May 10, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Sullivan | 50 min |
| May 10, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Platte | 47 min |
| May 10, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, Grundy, Livingston | 53 min |
| May 10, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Linn, Macon, Sullivan | 47 min |
| May 10, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette, Ray | 28 min |
| May 10, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Livingston | 50 min |
| May 10, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette, Saline | 48 min |
| May 10, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 61 min |
| May 10, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Macon | 53 min |
| May 10, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Macon | 16 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.