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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 14, 2001Adair County, Macon County, Randolph County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 3:47 PM CDT for Adair County, Macon County, Randolph County, Missouri. It was in force for 58 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2001, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2001, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Adair County, MO, Macon County, MO, Randolph County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 193 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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
Jun 14, 4:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 74 E	Kirksville, MO
Jun 14, 4:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 78 E	Queen City, MO

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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 14, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 254 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: 663 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -210 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1211 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 142048
SVRMCI

MOC001-121-175-197-142145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
347 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MACON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
  RANDOLPH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MOBERLY
  ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF KIRKSVILLE
  SCHUYLER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 347 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 25 MILES WEST OF NOVINGER TO 26
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUNT AIRY...OR FROM 24 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  TRENTON TO 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARSHALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 
  60 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS!

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  NEW CAMBRIA AT 400 PM CDT
  YARROW AT 405 PM CDT
  THOUSAND HILLS STATE PARK AT 410 PM CDT
  RENICK AT 415 PM CDT
  QUEEN CITY AT 420 PM CDT
  WILLMATHSVILLE AT 425 PM CDT

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL...AND
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 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.

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
PLEASANT HILL.

LAT...LON 4034 9286 3973 9284 3972 9267 3935 9269
          3927 9235 4058 9239 4058 9270 4034 9267

COOPER

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 14, 3:45 AM CDT, 12 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:45 AM CDT, 12 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
345 AM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

IR SAT SHOWS THAT CLOUD TOPS CONTINUE TO COOL THIS MORNING...WITH
SRN EXTENT OF CONVECTION RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF KANSAS ALONG FRONT.
AS THE LLVL JET MOVES EAST...EXPECT THE LINE OF CONVECTION TO FOLLOW
ALONG. NWRN ZONES WILL SEE ACTIVITY BY ZONE ISSUANCE...HOWEVER THE
REST OF WRN CWA WILL HAVE TO WAIT TIL MORE LIKE 12Z.  WHILE THE
ACTIVITY MAY WEAKEN SOMEWHAT AS IT ENTERS CWA...EXPECT DAYTIME
HEATING TO REDEVELOP/STRENGTHEN IT IN ERN CWA. SEVERE POTENTIAL WILL
PROBABLY BE HIGHEST EAST OF I35.  DIRECTIONAL SHEAR MORESO THAN
SPEED SHEAR. WILL DO POPS CLOSE TO CURRNT ZFP/GUID. NOT EXPECTING A
LOT OF TRAINING AS FRONT SEEMS TO MOVE PRETTY FAST BY EVENING...BUT
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE.    TEMPS ARE TRICKY. FEEL THAT TSRA
WILL TAKE LONG ENOUGH THAT ERN CWA WILL BE ON THE WARM SIDE...WHERE
THE WRN CWA WILL HALT WARMING ONCE PRECIP ARRIVES. WARM CURRENT
TEMPS...SO WILL GO NEAR 85 IN THE WEST AND UPPER 80S IN THE EAST.

MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT WITH THE EXITING SYSTEM...AND THIS IS
ALONG THE LINES OF CURRNT PKG.  COOLER DAY EXPECTED ON FRIDAY...WITH
WARM UP FOR THE WEEKEND. NO OTHER CHANGES PLANNED.

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

LVQ

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 14, 3:16 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
316 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

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

0310 PM    WARRENSBURG               MO   80 MPH TSTM GUST
06/14/01   JOHNSON                        TREES DOWN.  . REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
                                         z OFFICIAL.

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:17 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>004-011>013-020-021-028-029-037-043-
053-142015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
317 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL MISSOURI HAS CANCELLED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 424 FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES

IN KANSAS...LEAVENWORTH...WYANDOTTE...JOHNSON...MIAMI AND LINN

IN MISSOURI...NODAWAY...WORTH...GENTRY...DEKALB...A#NDREW...BUCHANAN
  CLINTON...PLATTE...CLAY...JACKSON...CASS AND BATES.

THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED OFF TO THE EAST AND NO
ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING.

PB

Local storm report, Jun 14, 3:23 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
323 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

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

0320 PM    CHILLICOTHE               MO   70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/14/01   LIVINGSTON                     WIDESPREAD POWER
                                          OUTAGES. . REPORTED BY
                                          HAtM RADIO OPERATOR.

Local storm report, Jun 14, 3:29 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
329 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

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

0320 PM    TRENTON                   MO   .75 INCH HAIL
06/14/01   GRUNDY                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jun 14, 3:45 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
345 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

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

0316 PM    CARROLLTON                MO   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/14/01   CARROLL                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jun 14, 3:47 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
347 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

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

0316 PM    TRENTON                   MO   70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/14/01   GRUNDY                         ROOF OFF BUILDING. .
                                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 7:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	DeKalb	51 min
Jun 14, 7:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry	38 min
Jun 14, 8:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy	47 min
Jun 14, 10:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Linn, Macon	55 min
Jun 14, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	57 min
Jun 14, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison	63 min
Jun 14, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	63 min
Jun 14, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clinton	49 min
Jun 14, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	47 min
Jun 14, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette, Ray	57 min
Jun 14, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	57 min
Jun 14, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Mercer	63 min
Jun 14, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Livingston	75 min
Jun 14, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon, Randolph	54 min
Jun 14, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	59 min
Jun 14, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Linn	63 min
Jun 14, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam, Sullivan	63 min
Jun 14, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	55 min
Jun 14, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Schuyler	58 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.