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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 29, 2014Andrew County, Nodaway County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2014, 8:01 PM CDT for Andrew County, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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: Jun 29, 2014, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2014, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.25 in

Counties Andrew County, MO, Nodaway County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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
Jun 29, 8:14 PM CDT	TORNADO	3 Se Guilford, MO	REPORT OF CAMPER FLIPPED WEST OF 410TH STREET. 8 INCH DIAMETER TREE DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY M AND N.

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
Jun 29, 4:04 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jun 29, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 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.

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: 4952 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 9.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

047 
WFUS53 KEAX 300101
TOREAX
MOC003-147-300130-
/O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0018.140630T0101Z-140630T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
801 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN ANDREW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI...
  SOUTHEASTERN NODAWAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 758 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF FILLMORE...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR 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...
  GUILFORD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA.

&&

LAT...LON 4022 9464 4006 9461 4009 9486 4016 9489
TIME...MOT...LOC 0101Z 259DEG 12KT 4013 9481

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

$$

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1 follow-up statement

981 
WWUS53 KEAX 300126
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
826 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 2014

MOC003-147-300135-
/O.EXP.KEAX.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-140630T0130Z/
NODAWAY MO-ANDREW MO-
826 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN ANDREW AND SOUTHEASTERN
NODAWAY COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 830 PM CDT...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE 
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE AND 
PROPERTY. HOWEVER...SMALL HAIL IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS 
THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 4022 9464 4006 9461 4009 9486 4016 9489
TIME...MOT...LOC 0125Z 259DEG 12KT 4015 9471

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 7:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Nodaway	37 min
Jun 29, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Gentry, Nodaway	47 min
Jun 29, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Holt	34 min
Jun 29, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	41 min
Jun 29, 8:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Nodaway	8 hr
Jun 29, 8:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	25 min
Jun 29, 8:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Buchanan	4 min
Jun 29, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	30 min
Jun 29, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Buchanan	34 min
Jun 29, 9:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan	6 hr
Jun 29, 9:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Mercer	26 min
Jun 29, 9:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	24 min
Jun 29, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer, Putnam, Sullivan	48 min
Jun 29, 9:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EAX	Buchanan	17 min
Jun 29, 9:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Grundy, Mercer	24 min
Jun 29, 9:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Buchanan	15 min
Jun 29, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	38 min
Jun 29, 9:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Mercer, Putnam, Sullivan	32 min
Jun 29, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam, Sullivan	48 min
Jun 29, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clinton	17 min
Jun 29, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison, Mercer	37 min
Jun 29, 10:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Buchanan	39 min
Jun 29, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam, Schuyler	60 min
Jun 29, 11:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Putnam, Schuyler	8 hr
Jun 29, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam, Schuyler	47 min
Jun 30, 12:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Schuyler	31 min
Jun 30, 11:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	EAX	Adair, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Mercer, Nodaway and 4 more	11 hr
Jun 30, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Worth	37 min
Jun 30, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison, Worth	46 min
Jun 30, 5:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison	26 min
Jun 30, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Harrison, Mercer	30 min
Jun 30, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer, Putnam, Sullivan	44 min
Jun 30, 6:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Harrison	41 min
Jun 30, 6:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Gentry, Harrison, Mercer, Worth	4 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.