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High Wind Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this high wind warning at Mar 31, 2008, 9:56 AM CDT for 6 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2008, 9:56 AM CDT (14:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
Counties Chariton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Howard County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:56 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 10:00 AM CDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | Blackwater, MO | SHINGLES WERE BLOWN OFF A HOUSE AND TWO POWER LINES WERE DOWNED. WINDS IN THAT AREA WERE ESTIMATED TO BE AS HIGH AS 60 MPH. |
| Mar 31, 10:18 AM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 54 | 3 E Knob Noster, MO | CW5990 CWOP NETWORK WEATHER STATION MEASURED GUST. |
| Mar 31, 10:52 AM CDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | 3 E Brunswick, MO | TRACTOR TRAILER RIG BLOWN OVER ON HIGHWAY 24. SEVERAL TREES DOWNED AS WELL WITH THE HIGH WINDS...ESTIMATED TO AROUND 60 MPH. |
| Mar 31, 10:55 AM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 75 | Moberly, MO | 20 FOOT DIAMETER TREE TOP SNAPPED OFF...NUMEROUS LIGHT POLES BENT/SNAPPED...NUMEROUS TREES AND TREE BRANCHES BROKEN. |
| Mar 31, 11:02 AM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 60 | 1 Sse Moberly, MO | WINDS ARE ESTIMATED TO BE GUSTING TO 60 MPH. SEVERAL TREE BRANCHES ARE DOWN. |
| Mar 31, 11:05 AM CDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | 5 Ne Cairo, MO | HIGH WINDS ESTIMATED AT 60 MPH CAUSED SEVERAL POWER POLES TO BE SNAPPED OFF. ALSO SEVERAL SHEDS LOST ROOFS. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -454 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1142 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 442 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 495 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KEAX 311456 NPWEAX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 956 AM CDT MON MAR 31 2008 MOZ032-033-039-040-045-046-311700- /O.NEW.KEAX.HW.W.0002.080331T1456Z-080331T1700Z/ CHARITON-RANDOLPH-SALINE-HOWARD-PETTIS-COOPER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SALISBURY...KEYTESVILLE...MOBERLY... MARSHALL...FAYETTE...NEW FRANKLIN...SEDALIA...BOONVILLE 956 AM CDT MON MAR 31 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT TODAY. STRONG WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE WARNED AREA DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. A WIND GUST OF 53 MPH WAS REPORTED NEAR KNOB NOSTER IN EASTERN JOHNSON COUNTY. THE STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO SPREAD EASTWARD SHORTLY INTO PORTIONS OF SALINE...NORTHERN PETTIS AND SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTIES. WHILE THE STRONG WINDS ARE NOT DIRECTLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO THE SOUTH...SOME LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL MAY ACCOMPANY THIS ACTIVITY. A HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR AT LEAST ONE HOUR...OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR AT ANYTIME. DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES AND PROPERTY IS LIKELY WITH WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE. $$ DEROCHE
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KEAX 311722 NPWEAX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1222 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2008 MOZ032-033-039-040-045-046-311830- /O.EXP.KEAX.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080331T1700Z/ CHARITON-RANDOLPH-SALINE-HOWARD-PETTIS-COOPER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SALISBURY...KEYTESVILLE...MOBERLY... MARSHALL...FAYETTE...NEW FRANKLIN...SEDALIA...BOONVILLE 1222 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED... THE HIGH WIND WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. THE STRONG WINDS THAT AFFECTED THE AREA EARLIER HAVE SUBSIDED MINIMIZING THE HIGH WIND THREAT. THEREFORE...THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ DEROCHE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 4:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 39 min |
| Mar 31, 4:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 23 min |
| Mar 31, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, DeKalb, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway, Worth | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 4:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 18 min |
| Mar 31, 5:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison, Nodaway, Worth | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 5:37 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 7:14 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | EAX | Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Henry and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 10:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 37 min |
| Mar 31, 11:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 12:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Bates | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Henry | 5 hr |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.