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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 30, 1997Andrew County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1997, 3:34 AM CDT for Andrew County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 30, 1997, 3:34 AM CDT (08:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 1997, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Andrew County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:34 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
Apr 30, 3:45 AM CDT	Hail 1	Fillmore, MO	An Andrew County cooperative observer reported one inch hail in a severe thunderstorm a mile west of Fillmore.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 1985 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 300834 RRA
SVRMCI
MOC003-300915-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
334 AM CDT WED APR 30 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
    ANDREW COUNTY - NORTHWEST MISSOURI
 
* UNTIL 415 AM CDT

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    FILLMORE BY 340 AM
    SAVANNAH BY 345 AM
    ROSENDALE BY 355 AM
    WHITESVILLE BY 400 AM

* AT 333 AM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM FROM 5 MILES WEST OF FILLMORE TO 8 MILES WEST OF
  SAVANNAH MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.  THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF
  DIME SIZE HAIL.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM CAN EXPECT HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN
DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR OTHER
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.

WELVAERT

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 30, 2:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 2:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
218 AM CDT WED APR 30 1997

PCPN ON THE FOREFRONT TDY WITH TEMPS THRU PD ALSO UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.

MDLS MUCH SLOWER THAN LAST NITE AT THIS TIME...AND AS SUCH SYS ONLY
PROGD TO CROSS AREA TDY VICE ALREADY BEING PAST PER THE TUE 00Z RUN.
MDLS AND AWIPS WV IMAGERY INDICATE TWO PIECES TO COME THRU.  FIRST
PIECE OVR NC KS RESULTING IN CNVCTN OVR NE KS...WITH NEGATIVELY TILTED
SECOND PIECE EXPECTED TO DEEPEN AND MOVE ACRS DURG DAY TDY.  ASOCD
SFC LOW OVR SC KS AT 06Z WILL MOVE TWD NE MO BY 18Z.  THUS...THINK
PCPN A GOOD BET MOST AREAS TDY WITH BEST CHANCES OVR NRN ZONES.  ERN
MO LOOKS INTERESTING FOR LATER TDY.

TEMPS EVEN MORE OF A CHALLENGE TDY WITH PRETTY STNG CAA.  ETA MOST
GUNG-HO WITH THE COOLING...TAKING THE H8 +5C LINE WELL INTO NRN MO.
NGM NOT AS VIGOROUS WITH AVN IN THE MIDDLE.  FEEL AVN DEPICTION BEST...
AND WITH GUID NUMBERS VRY CLOSE CANT REALLY ARGUE.  ACTUAL HIGH FOR
THE DAY LIKELY TO OCCUR THIS MORN WITH AREA STILL IN WARM SECTOR UNTIL
SYS CAN PASS.  WILL WORD ZONES ACCORDINGLY WITH FALLING TEMPS...MAYBE
WITH SOME RECOVERY IN WRN GRPS FOR THE AFTN ALTHO FWC DOESNT THINK SO.
WINDS ALSO TO BLOW TDY AS LOW CRANKS WHILE CROSSING STATE.  WILL NOT
GO WITH ADVSY ATTM...BUT WILL HIT IN ZONES.

CLDS TO HANG ON INTO EVE HRS...THEN LOOK FOR A CLEARING TREND.  THIS IS
NEXT PROBLEM AS SFC RIDGING ALSO BUILDING IN.  THIS COMBO ARGUES FOR
CHILLY TEMPS.  FWC WAY TOO COOL YSTDY BUT LOOKS REASONABLE THIS TIME.
AGAIN...GUID NUMBERS RIGHT ON TOP OF EACH OTHER AND WILL STAY CLOSE.

WARMUP TO RETURN AGAIN BY THURS...WITH RAIN CHANCES BACK JUST BYND FCST
PD.

MCI WB 060/038 064/048 062 996--

WELVAERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 3:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	41 min
Apr 30, 9:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison	23 min
Apr 30, 9:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer	13 hr
Apr 30, 9:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer	32 min
Apr 30, 11:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton	31 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.