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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 14, 2001Johnson County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2001, 9:49 PM CDT for Johnson County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 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: Apr 14, 2001, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Johnson County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 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 14, 10:13 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Holden, MO
Apr 14, 10:22 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Centerview, MO	Emergency manager estimated wind gusts to 80 mph and one inch hail.

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
Apr 14, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 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: 16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -211 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 866 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 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 
WUUS53 KEAX 150249
SVRMCI
MOC101-150345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
949 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 949 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HOLDEN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF 
  WARRENSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. GOLFBALL-SIZE HAIL FELL 3 
  MILES SOUTH OF KINGSVILLE AT 948 PM.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CENTERVIEW AT 955 PM CDT
  WARRENSBURG AT 1000 PM CDT
  KNOB NOSTER AT 1010 PM CDT

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL...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.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL
SIZE...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.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITiH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

LAT...LON 3878 9409 3860 9401 3859 9352 3892 9353

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 Apr 14, 4:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 4:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
417 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

TSRA HAVE FORMED ALONG H8 FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND SLIDING INTO WRN CWA.
THIS WILL BE THE FIRST CONCERN. SURGING SFC BOUNDARY FROM THE SOUTH
WILL BE THE NEXT ONE LATER THIS EVENING. SHTWV COMING OUT OF THE
ROCKIES IS THE INSTIGATOR. MOISTURE FINALLY RETURNING WILL LIGHT UP
THE SFC BOUNDRY.

SHTWV MOVES THRU PRETTY QUICK WITH DOWNWARD MOTION BY 12Z. MAY SEE
SOME REMAINING SHOWERS LEAVING ERN CWA EARLY.  ONLY OTHER THING TO
LOOK AT WAS THE CHC OF RAIN ON MONDAY. 300K ISENTROPIC LIFT PRETTY
DECENT IN THE WRN ZONES...AND HAVE ADDED CHC OF RAIN. MDLS STILL IN
AGREEMENT WITH COLD TEMPS COME DOWN AHEAD OF SFC HIGH. HAVE GENRLY
GONE WITH MAV GUID TEMPS.

NXT CHC FOR PCPN LOOKS TO BE SAT IN THE EXTENDED.

.EAX...NONE

LVQ

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 14, 8:51 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
851 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

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

0831 PM    7 W LINWOOD               KS   1 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   LEAVENWORTH                    REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0842 PM    1 NW WARRENSBURG          MO   70 MPH TSTM GUST
04/14/01   JOHNSON                        REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0843 PM    5 N WARRENSBURG           MO   .88 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   JOHNSON                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0845 PM    2 SW SHAWNEE              KS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   JOHNSON                        REPORTED BY FIRE AND
                                          RESCUE.

Local storm report, Apr 14, 8:59 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
859 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

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

0854 PM    LINWOOD                   KS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   LEAVENWORTH                    REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Apr 14, 9:05 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
905 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

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

0855 PM    KNOB NOSTER               MO   80 MPH TSTM GUST
04/14/01   JOHNSON                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER. CARS BLOWN OFF
                                          THE ROAD.

Local storm report, Apr 14, 9:26 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
926 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

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

0925 PM    KANSAS CITY               MO   1 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   JACKSON                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Apr 14, 9:35 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
935 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

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

0930 PM    GARDNER                   KS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   JOHNSON                        REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

0930 PM    7 S GARDNER               KS   .75 INCfH HAIL
04/14/01   MIAMI

0930 PM    7 S GARDNER               KS   70 MPH TSTM GUST
04/14/01   MIAMI

Local storm report, Apr 14, 9:46 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
946 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

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

0945 PM    3 S KINGSVILLE            MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   JOHNSON                        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
Apr 14, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	50 min
Apr 14, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Jackson	40 min
Apr 14, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette	65 min
Apr 14, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis, Saline	61 min
Apr 14, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	52 min
Apr 14, 9:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette	4 hr
Apr 14, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	44 min
Apr 14, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	55 min
Apr 14, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	55 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.