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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 27, 2014Cooper County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2014, 4:50 PM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It was in force for 25 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: Mar 27, 2014, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 27, 2014, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.5 in

County Cooper County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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
Mar 27, 4:50 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	4 N Tipton, MO	FUNNEL CLOUD RELAYED BY COOPER COUNTY EM FROM PUBLIC REPORT.

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
Mar 27, 12:54 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 688 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 699 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

671 
WFUS53 KEAX 272150
TOREAX
MOC053-272215-
/O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0006.140327T2150Z-140327T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
450 PM CDT THU MAR 27 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN COOPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 446 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR TIPTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.


  HAZARD...TORNADO AND PING PONG 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...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN COOPER COUNTY.

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 3868 9262 3868 9291 3871 9288 3878 9257
TIME...MOT...LOC 2150Z 258DEG 44KT 3869 9276

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.50IN

$$

DUX

1 follow-up statement

463 
WWUS53 KEAX 272209
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
509 PM CDT THU MAR 27 2014

MOC053-272219-
/O.CAN.KEAX.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-140327T2215Z/
COOPER MO-
509 PM CDT THU MAR 27 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COOPER COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.

ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE...AND A TORNADO 
WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3868 9262 3868 9291 3871 9288 3878 9257
TIME...MOT...LOC 2209Z 258DEG 44KT 3874 9247

$$

DUX

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 27, 3:17 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson, Pettis	12 hr
Mar 27, 1:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Nodaway	25 min
Mar 27, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	50 min
Mar 27, 2:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Jackson	52 min
Mar 27, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	31 min
Mar 27, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cass	44 min
Mar 27, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	DeKalb	34 min
Mar 27, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	36 min
Mar 27, 2:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EAX	DeKalb	21 min
Mar 27, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson	33 min
Mar 27, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	45 min
Mar 27, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, DeKalb	33 min
Mar 27, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray, Saline	52 min
Mar 27, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis	34 min
Mar 27, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	45 min
Mar 27, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, Grundy, Harrison	32 min
Mar 27, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline	36 min
Mar 27, 3:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EAX	Daviess, Grundy	29 min
Mar 27, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson, Pettis	42 min
Mar 27, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Howard	48 min
Mar 27, 4:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EAX	Grundy, Mercer, Sullivan	18 min
Mar 27, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cooper	45 min
Mar 27, 4:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Grundy, Sullivan	36 min
Mar 27, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline	50 min
Mar 27, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Pettis	47 min
Mar 27, 4:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Mercer	24 min
Mar 27, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Linn	46 min
Mar 27, 5:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Chariton, Lafayette, Randolph, Saline	36 min
Mar 27, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	34 min
Mar 27, 5:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Howard	36 min
Mar 27, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cooper	28 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.