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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 17, 2001Bates County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2001, 5:23 PM CDT for Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 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: May 17, 2001, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Bates County, MO

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 17, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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.

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: 2833 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 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.

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 172223
SVRMCI
MOC013-172300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
523 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BATES COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BUTLER

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 523 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BUTLER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BUTLER AT 530 PM CDT
  ALTONA AT 555 PM CDT
  BALLARD AT 600 PM CDT

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN
DIAMETER...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. FOR YOUR SAFETY...MOVE
INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING IS A THREAT
FROM ALL THUNDERSTORMS. HEAVY RAINS CAN CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF
LOW LYING AREAS.

LAT...LON 3818 9453k 3807 9438 3821 9408 3844 9409
          3845 9431

BUNTING

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 May 17, 3:55 AM CDT, 13 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 3:55 AM CDT, 13 hours 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
355 AM CDT THU MAY 17 2001

LOCATION OF FNTS/OUTFLOW BNDRYS...PCPN...CLDS WILL HV AN IMPACT ON
TEMPS THRU FRI MRNG. MID/UPR LVL PATTERN HAS BCM MORE ACTV AS
MID/UPR LVL RDG HAS FLATTENED...WITH PREDOMINANT ZONAL FLOW NOW IN
PLACE. QSTNRY FNTL BNDRY LIES FM NRN IL ACRS EXTRM SRN IA INTO N
CNTRL KS. UPSTRM CDFNT FM WRN MN CURVES SW THRU NRN NEB. STG/ISOLD
SVR TSTMS OCRG WITH SRN MOST BNDRY NR MO/IA BDR WHERE CAPES RUNNING
ARND 3000J. SUF INSTBY PRESENT TO SUPPORT SOME LRG HAIL FOR THE REST
OF THIS MRNG. CNVTV COMPLEX SHUD TRK E THIS MRNG WITH MAIN PCPN
THREAT FAR NRN MO CNTYS THIS MRNG. WATCHING LRG CNVTV COMPLEX OVR
ERN CO/WRN KS. ETA/AVN MODELS HV BEST HANDLE WITH THIS FEATURE...AND
TRK THIS PCPN COMPLEX EWD THIS MRNG ACRS KS. DFCLT TO SEE VORT LOBE
MODELS ATTACH TO THIS FEATURE BUT FEEL IT IS MORE OF A CNVTVLY
INDUCED VORT MAX WHICH WILL BCM MORE APPARANT LTR THIS MRNG.

FNTL BNDRY EXPCD TO SAG SWD THIS MRNG AND BCM THE FOCUS FOR ACTV
CNVTN PSBLY BY ERY AFTN. H7 TEMPS PROGD TO COOL A CPL DEGREES TDY SO
AMS WILL BE LESS CAPPED. HI CAPE VALUES WILL CONT TO SUPPORT LRG
HAIL/DMGG WIND THREAT THRU ERY THIS EVE ACRS SE HLF CWA. GIVEN HIGH
POPS FM PROGS AND ABV SCENERIO FEEL LIKELY POPS WARRANTED FOR LRG
PART OF CWA. SINCE PCPN SHUD HOLD OFF FOR ALL BUT FAR NRN CNTYS TILL
THIS AFTN THINK MOST OF CWA WILL EXCEED GUID MAX TEMPS.

UPSTRM CDFNT PROGD TO ENTER NW MO THIS AFTN AND COULD BE ANOTHER
SOURCE FOR AFTN CNVTN. HIGH PWS SUS HVY RAIN WILL CONT TO BE A
THREAT. MAY SEE SOME POST FNTL CNVTN AS SLOW MOVG MID LVL SHRTWV
MOVS E INTO CWA LT THIS AFTN/EVE.

EXTV CLDNS EXPCD TO LAST THRU TNGT AND THIS LIKELY TO SUPPORT WRMR
MIN TEMPS THAN PROGD. COOLER AND DRIER AIR MOVS INTO CWA FRI AS SFC
HI BUILDS IN.

NEXT CHC OF RAIN IS SAT NGT/SUN AS STGR SHRTWV MOVS ACRS SRN PLAINS
WITH INVERTED SFC FNT PUSING E ACRS KS AND INTO MO.

LTST AVN/MRF SHOW A STGR CDFNT WITH MUCH COOLER AIR MOVG IN FOR
TUE/WED. HV LOWERED TEMPS SVRL CAT TO REFLECT THIS.

.EAX...
KS...NONE
MO...NONE

JULY

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 4:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
417 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0206 PM    7 ESE FAYETTE             MO   .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   HOWARD                         REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

Local storm report, May 17, 4:30 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
430 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0406 PM    7 ESE FAYETTE             MO   .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   HOWARD                         REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

Local storm report, May 17, 4:31 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
431 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0335 PM    FAYETTE                   MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   HOWARD                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, May 17, 4:32 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
432 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0335 PM    FAYETTE                   MO   60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/17/01   HOWARD                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, May 17, 4:39 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
439 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0410 PM    WARRENSBURG               MO   WIND DAMAGE
05/17/01   JOHNSON                        REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.  LARGE TREE
                                          LIMBS DOWN.

Local storm report, May 17, 4:54 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
454 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0315 PM    CONCORDIA                 MO   .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   LAFAYETTE                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway	55 min
May 17, 3:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	44 min
May 17, 3:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Worth	43 min
May 17, 4:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam	40 min
May 17, 8:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison	26 min
May 17, 10:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Sullivan	45 min
May 17, 11:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy	38 min
May 17, 11:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew	46 min
May 17, 12:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	DeKalb	40 min
May 17, 12:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, Grundy	58 min
May 17, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clinton	65 min
May 17, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Linn	57 min
May 17, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Ray	40 min
May 17, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll	49 min
May 17, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	37 min
May 17, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	40 min
May 17, 2:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	114 min
May 17, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton	42 min
May 17, 2:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Livingston	2 hr
May 17, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson	42 min
May 17, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette, Ray	50 min
May 17, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	40 min
May 17, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	44 min
May 17, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	65 min
May 17, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Howard	45 min
May 17, 4:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	114 min
May 17, 6:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	97 min
May 17, 6:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess	76 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.