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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 6, 2015Platte County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2015, 4:02 PM CDT for Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 13 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: Jul 6, 2015, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2015, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

County Platte County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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
Jul 6, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 625 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1151 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 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.

455 
WFUS53 KEAX 062102
TOREAX
MOC165-062115-
/O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0024.150706T2102Z-150706T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
402 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN PLATTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT
    
* AT 402 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR WESTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  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. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CAMDEN POINT AROUND 410 PM CDT.
  WESTON AROUND 415 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3948 9492 3953 9482 3944 9467 3938 9486
TIME...MOT...LOC 2102Z 342DEG 14KT 3947 9486 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

1 follow-up statement

399 
WWUS53 KEAX 062111
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
411 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015

MOC165-062121-
/O.EXP.KEAX.TO.W.0024.000000T0000Z-150706T2115Z/
PLATTE-
411 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN PLATTE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
415 PM CDT...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. 
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER SEVERE 
WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI.

LAT...LON 3948 9492 3953 9482 3944 9467 3938 9486
TIME...MOT...LOC 2110Z 342DEG 14KT 3947 9486 

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 3:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	EAX	Adair, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass and 21 more	60 hr
Jul 6, 9:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	71 hr
Jul 6, 9:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	3 days
Jul 6, 10:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte, Ray	70 hr
Jul 6, 10:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette, Saline	4 days
Jul 6, 10:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Saline	5 days
Jul 6, 1:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Gentry, Worth	3 hr
Jul 6, 2:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Harrison	34 min
Jul 6, 2:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Andrew	31 min
Jul 6, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Clinton, DeKalb	50 min
Jul 6, 3:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	2 hr
Jul 6, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	38 min
Jul 6, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	57 min
Jul 6, 4:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, Platte	4 hr
Jul 6, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	39 min
Jul 6, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Clay	20 min
Jul 6, 4:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	4 hr
Jul 6, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EAX	Clay, Jackson	21 min
Jul 6, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Ray	18 min
Jul 6, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Jackson	24 min
Jul 6, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	30 min
Jul 6, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	46 min
Jul 6, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette, Ray	45 min
Jul 6, 6:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Caldwell, Cass, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.