Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2002, 6:52 AM CDT for Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2002, 6:52 AM CDT (11:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2002, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Saline County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:06 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Sweet Spgs, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 205 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KEAX 191152 SVRMCI MOC195-191245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 652 AM CDT FRI APR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 745 AM CDT * AT 649 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CONCORDIA...OR 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF WARRENSBURG...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SWEET SPRINGS BY 705 AM CDT. MALTA BEND BY 710 AM CDT. MARSHALL BY 725 AM CDT. 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 3923 9313 3894 9308 3895 9349 3918 9349 LVQ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 28 min |
| Apr 18, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry | 65 min |
| Apr 18, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 53 min |
| Apr 18, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Worth | 57 min |
| Apr 18, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 45 min |
| Apr 18, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 37 min |
| Apr 18, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 58 min |
| Apr 18, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer | 60 min |
| Apr 18, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry | 37 min |
| Apr 18, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 60 min |
| Apr 18, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 4:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 5:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 5:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 6:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 6:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 7:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard, Saline | 59 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.