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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 250, NWS Kansas City, MO

November 5, 2008Bates County, Missouri; Linn County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 5, 2008, 6:59 PM CST for Bates County, Missouri; Linn County, Kansas. 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: Nov 5, 2008, 6:59 PM CST (00:59 UTC)
Expired: Nov 5, 2008, 7:45 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Linn County, KS, Bates County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 570 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 293 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 306 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 4.5

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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 Nov 5, 2:10 PM CST, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 5, 2:10 PM CST, 4 hours 49 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 5, 11:55 PM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	47 hr
Nov 6, 6:22 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	26 hr
Nov 6, 6:22 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	26 hr
Nov 6, 6:22 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Saline	4 days
Nov 6, 6:22 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	47 hr
Nov 6, 9:30 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	49 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2008 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2008 Every 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.