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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 7, 2002Andrew County, Holt County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2002, 10:04 PM CST for Andrew County, Holt County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 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: Mar 7, 2002, 10:04 PM CST (04:04 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2002, 10:45 PM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Andrew County, MO, Holt County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 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 nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 695 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 950 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 520 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 080404
SVRMCI
MOC003-087-080445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1005 PM CST THU MAR 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
  NORTHERN ANDREW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1045 PM CST

* AT 1002 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  FORBES...OR 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST JOSEPH...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   FILLMORE BY 1010 PM CST.
   ROSENDALE...BOLCKOW BY 1025 PM CST.
   WHITESVILLE BY 1030 PM CST.

THE TOWN OF REA IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

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 3992 9523 3985 9505 4011 9459 4013 9490

SF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 10:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, DeKalb	45 min
Mar 7, 11:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry	25 min
Mar 7, 11:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess	45 min
Mar 8, 12:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Harrison	44 min

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.