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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 12, 2005Wyandotte County, Kansas; Clay County, Platte County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2005, 4:25 PM CDT for Wyandotte County, Kansas; Clay County, Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 min. 4 reports 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: Jun 12, 2005, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2005, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Wyandotte County, KS, Clay County, MO, Platte County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 12, 4:40 PM CDT	HAIL 1	6 N Kansas City Ks, MO
Jun 12, 4:50 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	4 N Weatherby Lake, MO
Jun 12, 4:55 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	1 S Platte City, MO
Jun 12, 4:58 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Parkville, MO

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 12, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1252 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KEAX 122126
SVREAX
KSC209-MOC047-165-122215-
/O.NEW.KEAX.SV.W.0113.050612T2125Z-050612T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
425 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CLAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  SOUTHEASTERN PLATTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  EASTERN WYANDOTTE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 422 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BASEHOR...OR 17
  MILES NORTH OF OLATHE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   KANSAS CITY KS BY 430 PM CDT.
   FARLEY BY 440 PM CDT.
   KCI AIRPORT BY 450 PM CDT.
   SMITHVILLE BY 505 PM CDT.

THE TOWNS OF WEATHERBY LAKE...PLATTE WOODS...LAKE WAUKOMIS AND
FERRELVIEW ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE 
HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM 
WINDOWS

IF ON OR NEAR AREA LAKES...GET OUT OF THE WATER AND MOVE INDOORS OR 
INSIDE A VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE UP TO 15 MILES 
FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE 
CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER NOW. 
DONT BE CAUGHT ON THE WATER IN A THUNDERSTORM

LAT...LON 3936 9492 3918 9481 3904 9480 3905 9463
      3919 9451 3946 9455

$$

HUDSON

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KEAX 122142
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
442 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 2005

KSC209-MOC047-165-122215-
/O.CON.KEAX.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-050612T2215Z/
WYANDOTTE KS-PLATTE MO-CLAY MO-
442 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR WESTERN CLAY...
SOUTHEASTERN PLATTE AND EASTERN WYANDOTTE COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM
CDT...

AT 437 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF 
PARKVILLE. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FARLEY...OR 
14 MILES NORTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   KCI AIRPORT BY 450 PM CDT.
   GLADSTONE BY 455 PM CDT.
   SMITHVILLE BY 510 PM CDT.

THE TOWNS OF WEATHERBY LAKE...HOUSTON LAKE...PLATTE WOODS...LAKE
WAUKOMIS AND FERRELVIEW ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 3936 9492 3918 9481 3904 9480 3905 9463
      3919 9451 3946 9455

$$

HUDSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	49 min
Jun 12, 5:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Leavenworth, Wyandotte	6 hr
Jun 12, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	47 min
Jun 12, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Clinton, Platte	46 min
Jun 12, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	18 min
Jun 12, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette	37 min
Jun 12, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2005 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.