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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 29, 2014Buchanan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2014, 9:45 PM CDT for Buchanan County, Missouri. It was in force for 15 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: Jun 29, 2014, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2014, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.25 in

County Buchanan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 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.

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, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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

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The text

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

725 
WFUS53 KEAX 300245
TOREAX
MOC021-300300-
/O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0025.140630T0245Z-140630T0300Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 944 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF RUSHVILLE...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...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN BUCHANAN COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. TAKE COVER IN A
BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER NOW!

&&

LAT...LON 3963 9499 3963 9482 3953 9483 3953 9501
TIME...MOT...LOC 0245Z 273DEG 14KT 3957 9493

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

$$

AEP

1 follow-up statement

592 
WWUS53 KEAX 300254 RRA
SVSEAX

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

MOC021-300304-
/O.EXP.KEAX.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-140630T0300Z/
BUCHANAN MO-
954 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL BUCHANAN COUNTY WILL EXPIRE 
AT 1000 PM CDT...

THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
EXPIRED. HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT
FOR THE AREA.

ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE...AND A TORNADO 
WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3963 9499 3963 9482 3953 9483 3953 9501
TIME...MOT...LOC 0254Z 273DEG 14KT 3957 9488

$$

AEP

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, 8:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Andrew, Nodaway	29 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, 9:52 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

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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.