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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 26, 2008, 10:44 PM CST for 5 counties in 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
- Dec 26, 2008, 10:44 PM CST (04:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 26, 2008, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Caldwell County, MO, Daviess County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 9:51 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 449 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 456 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
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 Dec 26, 5:28 PM CST, 5 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 26, 5:28 PM CST, 5 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 26, 12:59 PM CST, 9 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1259 PM CST FRI DEC 26 2008 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-271900- 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- 1259 PM CST FRI DEC 26 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 A COLD FRONT WILL SLIDE INTO NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND NORTHEASTERN KANSAS TONIGHT...AND PROGRESS THROUGH THE OUTLOOK AREA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. AN UNSEASONABLY WARM AND MOIST AIR MASS HAS ALREADY MOVED NORTH AHEAD OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY...PROVIDING THE INGREDIENTS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATE THIS EVENING AND THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...MAINLY SOUTH AND EAST OF A KANSAS CITY TO KIRKSVILLE LINE. WHILE A STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT IN AREAS FROM PLEASANTON...TO CLINTON...SEDALIA...AND BOONVILLE...HIGHER PROBABILITIES FOR STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS EXIST FURTHER SOUTH ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI. HOWEVER...IF STRONG STORMS ARE ABLE TO DEVELOP ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. ADDITIONALLY...HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ACCOMPANY SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVERNIGHT TONIGHT...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LA CYGNE KANSAS TO MOBERLY MISSOURI. THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING AND ALSO MAY INDUCE FLOODING OF AREA RIVERS AND CREEKS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AFTER THE COLD FRONT PASSES THROUGH THE AREA BY SATURDAY MORNING...COLDER AIR WILL FILTER INTO THE REGION FROM THE NORTHWEST. RAIN IS EXPECTED TO MIX WITH SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN BY LATE SATURDAY MORNING IN FAR NORTHWEST MISSOURI...AND FURTHER SOUTH AND EAST TOWARDS CENTRAL MISSOURI INTO SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AS THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM PASSES THROUGH THE AREA SATURDAY EVENING...ANY RAIN...SLEET...FREEZING RAIN MIX IS EXPECTED TO TRANSITION INTO AND AREA OF SNOWFALL. AT THIS TIME...ONLY LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOWFALL ARE EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS EVENING AND THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LA CYGNE KANSAS TO BOONVILLE MISSOURI. REPORTS OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OR FLOODING ARE ALSO REQUESTED. 21
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 26, 10:41 PM CST, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1041 PM CST FRI DEC 26 2008 MOZ014-022-023-270515- CALDWELL-DAVIESS-LIVINGSTON- 1041 PM CST FRI DEC 26 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR CALDWELL...NORTHWESTERN LIVINGSTON AND SOUTHEASTERN DAVIESS COUNTIES UNTIL 1115 PM CST... AT 1037 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR POLO...OR 11 MILES SOUTH OF HAMILTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM HAS ALSO SHOWN BRIEF SIGNS OF ROTATION. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... BRECKENRIDGE BY 1055 PM CST. 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF UTICA BY 1100 PM CST. 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHILLICOTHE BY 1105 PM CST. THE TOWNS OF MOORESVILLE...LOCK SPRINGS AND SPRING HILL ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. DUX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 10:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson, Lafayette, Ray | 33 min |
| Dec 27, 1:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 4:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 24 min |
| Dec 27, 4:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette | 40 min |
| Dec 27, 4:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray | 32 min |
| Dec 27, 5:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Clay, Jackson, Ray | 47 min |
| Dec 27, 5:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Cass, Johnson, Lafayette, Ray, Saline | 30 min |
| Dec 27, 5:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 39 min |
| Dec 27, 5:36 AM CST | Freezing Rain Advisory | EAX | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 5:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Daviess, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Mercer and 2 more | 40 min |
| Dec 27, 6:11 AM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 44 hr |
| Dec 27, 6:11 AM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Saline | 7 days |
| Dec 27, 7:16 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 27, 8:09 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 27, 9:40 AM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cass, Henry, Johnson | 36 hr |
| Dec 27, 9:58 AM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Macon | 35 hr |
| Dec 27, 10:44 AM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Howard | 20 hr |
| Dec 27, 10:44 AM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Henry | 46 hr |
| Dec 27, 1:34 PM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Linn, Livingston | 63 hr |
| Dec 27, 1:42 PM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston | 5 days |
| Dec 27, 2:13 PM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Adair, Macon, Putnam, Schuyler | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 2:48 PM CST | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll | 25 hr |
| Dec 27, 4:10 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Adair, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Cooper, Daviess and 16 more | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.