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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 3, 2001Gentry County, Nodaway County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2001, 9:58 PM CDT for Gentry County, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 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: Jul 3, 2001, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Gentry County, MO, Nodaway County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 3, 10:20 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Guilford, MO
Jul 3, 10:25 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Stanberry, 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
Jul 3, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 1456 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 8.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 040259
SVRMCI

MOC075-147-040345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
958 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GENTRY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
  SOUTHEASTERN NODAWAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MARYVILLE

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 958 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ARKOE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  MARYVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A SECOND SEVERE 
  THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STANBERRY.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CONCEPTION AT 1005 PM CDT
  STANBERRY AT 1015 PM CDT
  FORD CITY AT 1030 PM CDT
  GENTRYVILLE AT 1040 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.

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

LAT...LON 4036 9493 4016 9502 4014 9461 4005 9461
          4005 9424 4027 9426

PB

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 Jul 3, 4:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 4:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
430 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2001

FORECAST CONCERNS: TRACK OF MINI-MCS THIS EVNG/TONITE AND
LOCATION OF REDEVELOPMENT WED AND THU.

OUTFLOW BNDRY LEFT BY LAST NITES NE/IA MCS MADE IT TO ABT THE
MO RVR THIS MRNG. REMNANTS OF BNDRY HV LIFTED SLGTLY NORTH...
XTNDG AND XTND ROUGHLY FRM LNK TO FNB TO STJ TO CDJ.  MORE PRONOUNCED
SYN SCALE SFC BNDRY XTNDS FRM HLC TO JUST NW OF LNK TO N OF DSM.
WITH SFC TEMPS RISING WELL INTO 90S AND SFC DEWPOINTS IN THE
70S...LAPS IS INDICATING CAPES AOA 4000 J/KG. PRIND IS THAT
CONVECT WL REFIRE WHERE OLD OUTFLOW BNDRY AND CDFNT AND SFC FNT
INTERSECT IN SE NE/SW IA.  WL BUMP POPS TO LIKELY IN NW CORNER
OF CWA.

BYND 24HRS...SFC FNT OVR NE AND IA TDA WL SAG SWD WITH MCS TONIGHT.
SHORT TERM MODELS HV BEEN TO AGGRESSIVE WITH SWD PUSH OF FNTS AS OF
LATE...SO PREFER MORE NRN PLACEMENT ALA NGM. CAP A LTL WEAKER TMRW
AS SLGTLY COOLER AIR MVS INTO FA FRM NE. XPCT SFC BASED STMS TO
REFIRE ALNG AND SOUTH OF MO RVR TMRW AFTN. ALSO MAY HV TO CONSIDER
PCPN THREAT ACRS NRN ZONES AFT 06Z THU DUE TO ELEVATED...WAA-INDUCED
NOCTURNAL CONVECT THAT MAY DEVELOP OVR IA. WL HAVE TO INTRO POPS
INTO THURS FCST TO ACCT FOR NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY. AFT THU...UPR RDGG
AND SFC RDGG SHULD DRY FA OUT FOR A SPELL. CAP STRENGTH SHULD
PRECLUDE ANY TSTM DEVELOPMENT THRU EARLY SUN...THO NERN ZONES MAY
EXPERIENCE GLANCING BLO FRM NOCTURNAL DEVELOPMENT BOTH FRI AND SAT
NITES. MED RNG MODELS MV POTENT VORT MAX JUST NORTH OF FA SUN INTO
MON.  WL MAINTAIN POPS ON SUN AND INCLUDE FOR MON.  THIS SHULD PUSH
SLGTLY COOLER AIR INTO FA FOR EARLY NXT WEEK.

AS FAR AS TEMPS ARE CONCERNED...WL SIDE WITH WARMER FWC VALUES THRU
THE SHORT TERM.  WL USE A BLEND OF UKMET/ECMWF/MRF 100 AND 85 DAM
GRIDDT IN THE EXTENDED.

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

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 3, 8:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
832 PM CDT TUE JUL 03 2001

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

0829 PM    3 NW GRANT CITY           MO   1 INCH HAIL
07/03/01   WORTH                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jul 3, 8:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
855 PM CDT TUE JUL 03 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY5 LOCATION....

0853 PM    9 E MARYVILLE             MO   .75 INCH HAIL
07/03/01   NODAWAY                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jul 3, 9:02 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
902 PM CDT TUE JUL 03 2001

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

0850 PM    CHULA                     MO   60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/03/01   LIVINGSTON                     REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Jul 3, 9:10 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
910 PM CDT TUE JUL 03 2001

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

0845 PM    MARYVILLE                 MO   .75 INCH HAIL
07/03/01   NODAWAY                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Jul 3, 9:15 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
915 PM CDT TUE JUL 03 2001

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

0905 PM    8 N STANBERRY             MO   .75 INCH HAIL
07/03/01   GENTRY                         REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

Local storm report, Jul 3, 9:17 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
917 PM CDT TUE JUL 03 2001

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

0905 PM    8 N STANBERRY             MO   .75 INCH HAIL
07/03/01   GENTRY                         REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Harrison, Mercer	61 min
Jul 3, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Harrison, Mercer	45 min
Jul 3, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Worth	65 min
Jul 3, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry	62 min
Jul 3, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Livingston	54 min
Jul 3, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, Harrison	62 min
Jul 3, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	40 min
Jul 3, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Livingston	46 min
Jul 3, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess	62 min
Jul 3, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew	56 min
Jul 3, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew	61 min
Jul 4, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	56 min
Jul 4, 2:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	53 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.