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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

February 4, 200831 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this winter storm watch at Feb 4, 2008, 4:49 AM CST for 31 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 4, 2008, 2:22 PM CST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 4, 2008, 4:49 AM CST (10:49 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 4, 2008, 2:22 PM CST
Expired: Feb 5, 2008, 4:24 AM CST
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO

All 38 counties

Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:55 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Feb 4, 3:50 AM CST, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 4, 3:50 AM CST, 59 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
Feb 3, 9:46 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more	14 hr
Feb 4, 12:09 AM CST	Freezing Fog Advisory	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry and 9 more	6 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Missouri, 2008 Winter Storm Watches in Kansas, 2008 Every winter storm watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.