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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 7, 2002Bates County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2002, 12:13 AM CDT for Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 2002, 12:13 AM CDT (05:13 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2002, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bates County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 6, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 3555 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 992 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.9
Supercell composite: 15.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 070513
SVRMCI
MOC013-070615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1213 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BATES COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT

* AT 1211 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED
  ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MERWIN TO BLUE MOUND...AND MOVING EAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   AMSTERDAM BY 1220 AM CDT.
   AMORET BY 1240 AM CDT.
   WORLAND...ADRIAN BY 1250 AM CDT.
   ALTONA BY 105 AM CDT.
   HUME...FOSTER BY 110 AM CDT.
   BUTLER...BALLARD BY 115 AM CDT.

THE TOWN OF PASSAIC IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.

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 3803 9425 3806 9461 3846 9462 3846 9435
          3843 9421 3844 9408 3804 9408 3806 9417

SF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	48 min
May 6, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	55 min
May 6, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	49 min
May 6, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	55 min
May 6, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	60 min
May 6, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Saline	58 min
May 6, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	61 min
May 6, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll	59 min
May 6, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	41 min
May 6, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	63 min
May 7, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	60 min
May 7, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	96 min
May 7, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	63 min
May 7, 1:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Saline	4 hr
May 7, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	62 min
May 7, 1:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.