Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1999, 1:38 AM CDT for Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1999, 1:38 AM CDT (06:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1999, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bates County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:40 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 140 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1210 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 403 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Jun 27, 2:25 PM CDT, 11 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:25 PM CDT, 11 hours 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION TO TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 225 PM CDT SUN JUN 27 1999 FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE TSTM CHANCES FOR NEXT 24 HOURS. ADDITIONAL CONVECTION HAS REDEVELOPED BEHIND FIRST MCS THIS AFTERNOON ON NOSE OF SURPRISINGLY STRONG LLJ FOR THIS TIME OF DAY. DESPITE ATMOSPHERE BEING WORKED OVER FROM EARLIER CONVECTION...JET PROVIDING ENOUGH LIFT OVER OLD OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES TO ALLOW CONVECTION TO PERSIST. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS COLD FRONT LYING FROM CENTRAL WISCONSIN SOUTHWEST INTO WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. WILL GO MORE WITH ETA MODEL WHICH IS HINTING AT NEXT MCS DEVELOPING OUT OVER THE HIGH PLAINS OF KANSAS. THICKNESS CONTOURS WOULD FAVOR A SIMILAR MOVEMENT TO THIS MORNINGS CONVECTION...WHICH WOULD TAKE MCS EAST-SOUTHEAST... GENERALLY A BIT FURTHER SOUTH THAN LAST NIGHT. LOCALIZED FLOODING IS A POTENTIAL PROBLEM TONIGHT...AS THETA-E RIDGE POSITIONS ITSELF OVER FORECAST AREA. HOWEVER...DUE TO UNCERTAINTY OF WHERE AND WHEN CONVECTION WILL AFFECT CWA WILL HOLD OFF ON ANY FFA AT THIS TIME. FRONTAL BOUNDARY SHOULD GET A PUSH FROM OVERNIGHT CONVECTION AND MOVE TO THE SOUTH OF FORECAST AREA DURING THE DAY ON MONDAY. AS A RESULT...FEEL THAT BEST THREAT FOR PRECIPITATION WILL BE IN THE MORNING TOMORROW...AND THEN DRY BUT COOLER CONDITIONS FOR TUESDAY. WILL GENERALLY GO WITH COMPROMISE OF FWC AND FAN GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES. .EAX... KS...NONE. MO...NONE. MJM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 1:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Henry | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 45 min |
| Jun 28, 8:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry, Johnson | 56 min |
| Jun 28, 8:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 9:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 7:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.