Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2008, 6:14 PM CDT for Howard County, Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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 24, 2008, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Howard County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 1402 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1159 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 24, 3:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 3:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 12:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1254 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2008 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-251745- 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- 1238 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 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 THE EARLY MORNING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA HAVE DIMINISHED SIGNIFICANTLY IN COVERAGE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...A WARM FRONT FROM JUST SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY TO 50 MILES SOUTH OF SEDALIA WILL LIFT SLOWLY NORTHWARD...ALLOWING A WARMER AND MORE HUMID AIRMASS TO SPREAD ACROSS THE REGION. AS SUNSHINE RETURNS TO AT LEAST SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA BY AFTERNOON...STRONG INSTABILITY WILL FOCUS RENEWED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ALONG AND NORTH OF THIS FRONT LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTH TO NEAR THE INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND SLOWLY RETREAT NORTH OVERNIGHT. AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL ALSO AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT TO THE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA MAY BE SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE IN THE VICINITY OF THE WARM FRONT. THE TORNADO THREAT IS GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE MOST NUMEROUS ALONG AND NORTH OF THE MISSOURI RIVER TONIGHT. GIVEN THE MORNING RAINFALL... THIS SETUP WILL PROVIDE FOR A THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT IN A CORRIDOR FROM INTERSTATE 70 TO ROUTE 36 IN NORTHERN MISSOURI. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. DISTURBED WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS WITH REPEATED CHANCES AT THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SATURDAY...MAINLY DURING THE NIGHTTIME AND EARLY MORNING HOURS. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL BE GREATEST TOWARD THE IOWA BORDER. HEAVY RAINFALL IS GENERALLY THE MAIN CONCERN WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE PERIOD...BUT SEVERE WEATHER CANNOT BE RULED OUT... ESPECIALLY ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE GREATEST THREAT GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. DB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:24 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 524 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2008 MOZ039-242300- SALINE- 524 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR NORTHEASTERN SALINE COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM CDT... AT 520 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR MARSHALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 24 MPH. THE TOWN OF SLATER WILL BE IN THE PATH OF THIS DEVELOPING STORM. PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. DUX
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:40 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 540 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2008 MOZ023-024-031-242315- CARROLL-LINN-LIVINGSTON- 540 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR NORTHERN CARROLL...SOUTHERN LIVINGSTON AND SOUTHWESTERN LINN COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM CDT... AT 539 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HALE...OR 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROOKFIELD. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN CARROLL... SOUTHERN LIVINGSTON AND SOUTHWESTERN LINN COUNTIES. SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. DUX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Holt | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Saline | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 6:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Saline | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard, Randolph | 33 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.