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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2008, 1:21 PM CDT for Bates County, Henry County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2008, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2008, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bates County, MO, Henry County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 2, 7:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1230 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Jun 2, 12:46 PM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 12:46 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1246 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2008 .UPDATE... ...MESOSCALE DISCUSSION... VIOLENT SPEARHEAD ECHO HAS NOW SURGING FROM FRANKLIN COUNTY INTO MIAMI COUNTY KANSAS ASSOCIATED WITH PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED HP STORM MERGER/BOW EVOLUTION. INTENSE REFLECTIVITY GRADIENT (20 TO 70+ DBZ OVER 2 KM) AND STRONG REAR INFLOW NOTCH ON THE LOWEST ELEVATION SLICE PER KTWX RADAR INDICATIVE OF AN EXTREMELY SEVERE STORM. BASE VELOCITY CROSS SECTIONS SHOW ONE OF THE MOST CLASSIC DESCENDING REAR INFLOW JETS I HAVE EVER SEEN...WITH 85-90 KNOT WINDS NOW DESCENDING FROM 12KFT AS THE STORM IS PUSHING ACROSS THE TOWN OF OSAWATOMIE. ONE CAN ONLY HOPE THAT THIS STORM IS STILL SLIGHTLY ELEVATED AND NOT MAXIMIZING ITS TOTAL WIND DAMAGE POTENTIAL. WITH A 70+ DBZ CORE STILL EXCEEDING 25KFT IN ALTITUDE...THIS STORM ALSO HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE UP TO TWO INCH DIAMETER HAIL AT IT CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PERSONS OVER SOUTHWEST CASS COUNTY...NORTHEAST LINN AND ALL OF BATES COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER NOW BOOKBINDER && .AVIATION... SCATTERED SHOWERS EXPECTED AT THE TAF SITES THIS MORNING. INSTABILITY AND FORCING MAXIMIZED BY LATE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON...SO HAVE INCLUDED TEMPO GROUP FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. OTHERWISE VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH THE TAF PERIOD. && .EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 1:14 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 114 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2008 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-031815- ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER- PUTNAM-SCHUYLER-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR- BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY- RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON-RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD- CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-COOPER-BATES-HENRY- 114 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ONGOING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT AREAS SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM PAOLA TO CLINTON WITH THE THREAT OF VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE SAME AREA CAN ALSO EXPECT TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS LEADING TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. DAMAGING WINDS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE WAKE OF THE STORMS...WILL PRODUCE LOCALIZED DAMAGING WINDS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. LOCALIZED WIND GUSTS OF 60 TO 70 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE BEHIND THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR NORTHERN MISSOURI AS STORMS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS NEBRASKA...AND HEAD TOWARDS THE AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ONCE AGAIN TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY LINGERS IN THE AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE ACTIVITY MOVING INTO THE AREA OVERNIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...ALONG WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NECESSARY TODAY ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY OVER PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. 21
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 2, 12:53 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1253 PM CDT MON JUN 02 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1240 PM HAIL RICH HILL 38.10N 94.36W
06/02/2008 E1.75 INCH BATES MO TRAINED SPOTTER
1240 PM HAIL RICH HILL 38.10N 94.36W
06/02/2008 E1.00 INCH BATES MO EMERGENCY MNGR
&&
ADOLPHSONLocal storm report, Jun 2, 12:54 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1254 PM CDT MON JUN 02 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1230 PM TSTM WND DMG OSAWATOMIE 38.50N 94.95W
06/02/2008 MIAMI KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
MIAMI COUNTY KANSAS SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED POWER LINES
DOWN IN OSAWATOMIE.
&&
MSINGERLocal storm report, Jun 2, 12:58 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:38 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 25 hr |
| Jun 2, 9:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EAX | Bates, Cass | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 11:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 12:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 12:36 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | EAX | Bates, Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte | 20 min |
| Jun 2, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 12:56 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Clay, Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 10:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 11:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 12:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Linn, Miami | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 6:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.