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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 6, 2002Andrew County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2002, 12:43 AM CDT for Andrew County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 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: May 6, 2002, 12:43 AM CDT (05:43 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2002, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Andrew County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 6, 1:04 AM CDT	Hail 1.75	Avenue City, 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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 5, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 1298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 060543
SVRMCI
MOC003-060630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1243 AM CDT MON MAY 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ANDREW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 130 AM CDT

* AT 1232 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 SKIDMORE TO FOREST CITY...AND MOVING   
EAST AT 55 MPH. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   ROSENDALE...BOLCKOW...AMAZONIA BY 1250 AM CDT.
   WHITESVILLE...SAVANNAH...AVENUE CITY BY 1255 AM CDT.
   ROCHESTER...COSBY BY 100 AM CDT.

AT 1234 AM...60 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED AT MOUND CITY MO. 

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 4013 9465 3985 9464 3986 9490 4013 9503

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 May 5, 3:45 PM CDT, 8 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 3:45 PM CDT, 8 hours 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
345 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002

CONCERNS ARE MAINLY CONVECTIVE THREATS NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. DRY LINE
HAS PUSHED INTO EXTREME WESTERN KANSAS WITH WARM FRONT WHICH WAS
EARLIER IN EXTREME NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI HAVING WASHED OUT. WARM
FRONT HAS REDEVELOPED WELL NORTH OF AREA. WEAK COLD FRONT/SURFACE
TROF ALSO MOVING VERY SLOWLY SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTHERN NEBRASKA.
BIGGEST CONCERN IN THE SHORT TERM IS THE FATE OF CONVECTION ALONG
DRY LINE. AS PER COORDINATION WITH SPC...EXPECT MCS DEVELOPMENT EARLY
TONIGHT ACROSS NEBRASKA IN AREA OF BEST INSTABILITY AND SUPPORT FROM
LLJ. MAIN QUESTION IS WHETHER ANY ACTIVITY TO WORK EAST INTO
MISSOURI. EXPECT AT LEAST A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE ACROSS MAINLY
NORTHERN ZONES LATE TONIGHT...BUT CONFIDENCE IS NOT HIGH DUE TO
NOCTURNAL COOLING AND DIMINISHING INSTABILITY. HOWEVER...STG LLJ AND WEAK H8
THETAE ADVECTION MAY SUPPORT CONVECTION THROUGH THE NIGHT. LOWEST
POPS TO BE ACROSS SOUTHERN ZONES.

OTHERWISE...MODELS HAVE BEEN INCONSISTENT IN PLACEMENT OF
PRECIPITATION FIELDS...ESPECIALLY MESOETA AND AVN WHICH HAVE BEEN
SUFFERING FROM CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK. WILL BASE FORECAST MAINLY ON
UPPER AND SURFACE FORCING MECHANISMS.

DRY LINE TO SHIFT EAST TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND WILL BE SITUATED JUST
NORTHWEST OF CWA. EXTREME INSTABILITY AHEAD OF DRY LINE...BUT
CONVERGENCE ALONG DRY LINE AND UPPER FORCING WEAK. EXPECT WIDELY
SCATTERED TO ISOLATED LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING
DEVELOPMENT...LIKELY DISSIPATING BY LATE EVENING. MODELS ALSO
SUGGEST THAT NORTHERN NEBRASKA FRONT TO ENTER NORTHERN CWA MONDAY
NIGHT...BEFORE MOVING BACK NORTH ON TUESDAY. PREFER FURTHER NORTH
POSITION...JUST ACROSS BORDER IN SOUTHERN IOWA...OF THE NGM/AVN.
HOWEVER...WILL MAINTAIN LOW POP ACROSS NORTHERN ZONES DUE TO
PROXIMITY OF FRONT.

TUESDAY WILL LIKELY BE QUIET DAY WITH SURFACE AND UPPER FEATURES
NORTHWEST OF CWA. DESPITE GOOD INSTABILITY...THERE APPEARS TO BE
LACK OF TRIGGER. ETA MUCH SLOWER IN PROGRESS OF COLD FRONT FOR
WEDNESDAY WITH AVN MUCH FASTER. PREFER SLOWER ETA AS UPPER TROF
STILL WELL NORTHWEST OF CWA. HOWEVER...DUE TO LACK OF HIGH
CONFIDENCE...WILL MAINTAIN LOW POP FOR TUESDAY NIGHT.

GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES LOOK TO CHILLY ON MONDAY GIVEN VEERING LOW
LEVEL FLOW. TEMPS LOOK ALSO TOO CHILLY FOR MONDAY NIGHT GIVEN HIGH
DEWPOINTS AND GOOD SOUTH WINDS.

NOON...

FOR WED THRU SUN TIMEFRAME...MODELS CONTINUE RECENT TREND SHOWING
REASONABLE AGREEMENT TO LONGWAVE PATTERN. SHORTWAVE PROGGED TO
TRANSLATE ACROSS N PLAINS WED PUSHING COLD FRONT THRU CWA. TREND HAS
BEEN TO SLOW THIS FRONT DOWN SOME OVER PAST FEW RUNS...AND BELIEVE
FRONT WILL BE LOCATED SOMEWHERE ACROSS CWA WED AFTERNOON. BUMPED MAX
TEMPS UP SEVERAL DEGREES WED AS COLD AIR DOESNT ARRIVE IN NW ZONES
UNTIL LATE IN THE DAY. OTHERWISE EXPECT CONVECTION TO DEVELOP ALONG
FRONTAL BOUNDARY WED AFTERNOON SO HAVE KEPT POPS ACROSS BOARD...THEN
HELD ONTO 30 POPS WED EVENING ACROSS SE ZONES. OTHERWISE SFC RIDGE
BUILDS INTO CWA FOR THURS...BEFORE SHIFTING E FRIDAY AS SHORTWAVE
RIDGE AXIS SHIFTS E OF CWA...ALLOWING FOR MOISTURE RETURN FRI NIGHT.
HAVE INCLUDED 30 POPS FRI NIGHT ACROSS CWA...THEN HELD ONTO
LINGERING CONVECTION ACROSS NE ZONES SAT MORNING. OTHERWISE CWA
LOOKS TO REMAIN IN WARM SECTOR DURING THE DAY SAT...BEFORE NEXT
SHORTWAVE TROUGH PUSHES COLD FRONT THRU CWA SUN. SOME UNCERTAINTY
WITH TIMING OF THIS SHORTWAVE...AS AVN SEEMS TOO AGGRESSIVE IN
FLATTENING RIDGE OVER AK...ALLOWING FOR MORE PROGRESSIVE FLOW ACROSS
EPAC. EC/UK HOLD ONTO THIS RIDGE...WHICH WOULD IMPLY THAT WAVE
MOVING INTO W COAST MAY BE SLOWER TO EJECT...WHICH SEEMS TO BE TREND
OVER PAST FEW WEEKS.

MS

305 AM...
FORECAST PROBLEMS WILL BE PRECIP AND TEMPS THROUGH THE SHORT TERM.

THE SURFACE LOW...LIFTING INTO SOUTH DAKOTA THIS MORNING...WILL BE
OUR RAIN MAKER FOR TONIGHT.  AVN AND META MODELS AGREE ENOUGH TO
INDICATE THAT THE BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN NORTHWEST
MISSOURI LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND THROUGH THE NIGHT TIME HOURS.
THETA-E AXIS BEGINS TO LAY OVER INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF
MISSOURI...FROM SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...GOING INTO 00Z MON.  META
ALSO SHOWING A STRONG 45-55 KT LLJ PUSHING INTO THE REGION SUN
NIGHT.  HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION LOOKS TO OCCUR ALONG AND NORTH OF THE
MISSOURI/IOWA BOARDER.  AS FOR TODAYS TEMPS...THE GENERAL FLOW WILL
SHIFT TO THE SOUTHWEST ALLOWING FOR STRONG WAA THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
TEMPS SHOULD REACH AROUND 80 FOR MOST AREAS.

FOR MON...THE DAYLIGHT HOURS COULD SEE A FEW SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
THROUGHOUT THE CWA. DEW POINTS REMAIN HIGH AND MARGINAL INSTABILITY
WILL BE LINGERING ABOUT AS A WEAK BOUNDARY IS LEFT HANGING OUT OVER
THE NORTHWEST HALF OF MISSOURI MON.  HAVE GONE AHEAD AND RESTRICTED
CHANCE POPS TO THE EAST HALF OF THE CWA FOR MON NIGHT AS MOST OF THE
FOCUS FOR STORM DEVELOPMENT WILL HAVE LEFT THE REGION.  TEMPS IN THE
LOW TO MID 80S LOOK GOOD FOR THE AREA AS H85 TEMPS ARE PROGGED TO
REACH FOR THE 18-20 C RANGE MON AFTERNOON.

COME TUE...ANOTHER SHORT WAVE...EMBEDDED IN THE SOUTHWEST
FLOW...WILL HELP PUSH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY THROUGH THE MIDWEST TUE
NIGHT/WED MORNING. THEREFOR...I HAVE KEPT THE CHANCE OF THUNDER FOR
TUE AND WED.  AS HIGH PRESSURE BEHIND THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES
INTO THE MIDWEST WED NIGHT PRECIP CHANCES WILL TAPER OFF TO THE EAST.

OUR BREAK FROM THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE UNTIL FRI
NIGHT/SAT MORNING AS THE EXTENDED MODELS BEGIN TO LIFT A WEST COAST
TROUGH THROUGH THE PLAIN STATES AS AN OPEN WAVE.  MY THOUGHTS ARE
THAT THE OPEN WAVE MOVING INTO THE MIDWEST IS A BIT OVER DONE...AND
IS MOVING TOO QUICKLY.  BUT...CHANCE OF THUNDER MAY STILL BE
ADVISABLE AS CWA WILL BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A CONTINUING
SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW WITH A GOOD POTENTIAL TO TAP DEEP MOISTURE
FLOWING NORTH ON THE SUB-TROPICAL JET.

CUTTER

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 5, 9:43 PM CDT, 3 hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
943 PM CDT SUN MAY 05 2002

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

0934 PM    BONNER SPGS               KS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   WYANDOTTE                      REPORTED BY MEDIA.

Special weather statement, May 5, 9:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>032-037>039-
043>045-053-054-060700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
944 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
NUMBER 234...IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING. THIS SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN MISSOURI:

ADAIR...ANDREW...ATCHISON...BATES...BUCHANAN...CALDWELL...CARROLL...
CASS...CHARITON...CLAY...CLINTON...DAVIESS...DE KALB...GENTRY...
GRUNDY...HARRISON...HENRY...HOLT...JACKSON...JOHNSON...LAFAYETTE...
LINN...LIVINGSTON...MACON...MERCER...NODAWAY...PETTIS...PLATTE...
PUTNAM...RAY...SALINE...SCHUYLER...SULLIVAN AND WORTH.

IN KANSAS:

ATCHISON...DONIPHAN...JOHNSON...LEAVENWORTH...LINN...MIAMI AND
WYANDOTTE.

SOME CITIES IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE ATCHISON...
BETHANY...BUTLER...CHILLICOTHE...CLINTON...HARRISONVILLE...KANSAS
CITY...KIRKSVILLE...MARSHALL...MARYVILLE...OLATHE...PAOLA...
ROCKPORT...SEDALIA...ST JOSEPH...TRENTON AND WARRENSBURG.

PC

Local storm report, May 5, 11:59 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1159 PM CDT SUN MAY 05 2002

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

1114 PM    2 S CLAYCOMO              MO   70 MPH TSTM GUST
05/05/02   CLAY                           REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR. WIND ESTIMATED.

JULY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	59 min
May 5, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson	44 min
May 6, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	44 min
May 6, 1:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, DeKalb	51 min
May 6, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton	42 min
May 6, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell	39 min
May 6, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll	44 min
May 6, 5:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt	47 min
May 6, 5:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	DeKalb	23 min
May 6, 6:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam	38 min
May 6, 6:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, Grundy, Livingston	44 min
May 6, 6:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	44 min
May 6, 6:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Sullivan	48 min
May 6, 7:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Macon	40 min
May 6, 7:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	57 min
May 6, 8:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.