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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 20, 2001Buchanan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2001, 7:16 PM CDT for Buchanan County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Apr 20, 2001, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Buchanan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 2129 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1308 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 8.9

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The text

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

626 
WUUS53 KEAX 210017
SVRMCI
MOC021-210100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
716 PM CDT FRI APR 20 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ST JOSEPH

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 716 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF FAUCETT...OR ABOUT 4 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF ATCHISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  AGENCY AT 740 PM CDT
  ST JOSEPH AT 745 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.

DIME SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN CUMMINGS KANSAS AT 
655 PM CDT.

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.

LAT...LON 3981 9489 3979 9489 3979 9492 3975 9492
          3975 9487 3973 9487 3972 9493 3974 9497
          3971 9497 3967 9500 3956 9501 3956 9464
          3980 9463 3981 9480

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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 20, 2:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 2:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
250 PM CDT FRI APR 20 2001

NOTHING EASY WITH THIS FCST PKG THRU MON. FNTL BNDRY FM NE IA THRU
SW IA AND THEN ALG KS/NEB BDR WILL LIKELY BE ONE AREA TO FOCUS
INITIAL CNVTN...AS WELL AS SFC TROF EXTDG THRU CNTRL KS AND ERN TX
PNHDL. STG SHRTWV TRKG ACRS CO WILL AID RPD TSTM DVLPT LT THIS
AFTN/EVE. FTHR S MESO-ETA PICKED UP ON H7 VORT LOBE MOVG THRU OK.
ISOLD CNVTN SPROUTED UP OVR SE KS ON NOSE OF DEEPER MSTR AHD OF THIS
FEATURE. HWVR...AS NOTED ON 18Z SPECIAL SOUNDING TAKEN BY TOP THE
AMS IS CURRENTLY CAPPED...ALBIET MDTLY UNSTBL WITH VERY STEEP MID
LVL LAPSE RATES. VORT LOBE PROGD TO TRK INTO CNTRL MO WHERE APRNT
CNVTV FEEDBACK SHOWS UP SUGG CNVTN COULD INCR ACRS SRN CWA THIS EVE
AS LOBE MOVS THRU. FTHR N THINK BEST CHC FOR CNVTN WILL BE LT THIS
EVE AND WILL GO WITH HIEST POPS FAR NW WHERE INSTBY PROGD TO BE
GTST. WILL ALSO KEEP MENTION OF SVR THIS AREA. MIN TEMPS ABT SAME AS
THIS MRNG MOST AREAS.

QUESTIONS FOR TMRW WILL BE WHERE WILL OUTFLOW BNDRY/WK FNT FM TNGTS
STORMS END UP. ETA A BIT FTHR N THAN PREVIOUS RUNS AND MORE IN LN
WITH AVN WHICH HAS CHGD LTL OVR PAST CPL OF RUNS. SO PLACING BNDRY
NR A MCI S OF IRK LN SEEMS RSNBL. THIS BNDRY WILL THEN ACT TO FOCUS
STG/PSBL SVR TSTM DVLPMT LT SAT AFTN/EVE. MODELS SHOW NO CAP SO
ACTVTY COULD FIRE BY MID AFTN...SO WILL MAINTAIN CHC POPS FOR AFTN
HRS MOST OF CWA. TEMPS COULD BE TRICKY DUE TO LOC OF BNDRY...RAIN
COOLED AIR AND CLDS. FOR NOW WILL GO COOLER N OF BNDRY AND ABT THE
SAME S OF BNDRY. SHUD BE ACTV NGT SAT AND HVY RAIN COULD BE A
PROBLEM.

MAIN UPR SHRTWV PROGD TO COME OUT LT SUN. WIL%L CONT CHC POPS ON SUN
AND ONCE AGAIN GO LIKELY SUN NGT AS UPR SYS APCHS. PCPN SHUD CONT
INTO MON AS UPR SYS SHEARS OUT N OF CWA AND KEEPS FNT FM BLOWING
THRU TILL TUE.

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

JULY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 20, 7:04 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
704 PM CDT FRI APR 20 2001

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

0651 PM    2 N BENDENA               KS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/20/01   DONIPHAN                       REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0655 PM    TROY                      KS   .88 INCH HAIL
04/20/01   DONIPHAN                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0655 PM    3 NW CUMMINGS             KS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/20/01   ATCHISON                       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 20, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	49 min
Apr 20, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Worth	45 min
Apr 20, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, DeKalb	46 min
Apr 21, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	48 min
Apr 21, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Clinton	49 min
Apr 21, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Clinton	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.