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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 19, 2002Howard County, Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2002, 7:46 AM CDT for Howard County, Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 59 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: Apr 19, 2002, 7:46 AM CDT (12:46 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2002, 8:45 AM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Howard County, MO, Saline County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:49 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 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 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 251 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 191246
SVRMCI
MOC089-195-191345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
745 AM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
  HOWARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 845 AM CDT

* AT 744 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF
  NICKELS...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR ARROW ROCK...OR 13 MILES EAST OF MARSHALL...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   LISBON BY 750 AM CDT.
   ESTILL BY 805 AM CDT.
   NEW FRANKLIN BY 810 AM CDT.
   FAYETTE BY 820 AM CDT.

HAIL UP TO 0NE INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN SWEET SPRINGS 
WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...TAKE 
IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.

LAT...LON 3927 9251 3925 9245 3898 9258 3899 9289
          3907 9294 3898 9305 3915 9310 3926 9262

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, 6:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	53 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.