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High Wind Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 26, 2009Cass County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this high wind warning at Apr 26, 2009, 7:13 AM CDT for Cass County, Missouri. It was in force for 99 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
Apr 26, 2009, 7:13 AM CDT (12:13 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 2009, 8:52 AM CDT
In force
99 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO

County Cass County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:15 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2009-04-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2009-04-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 200 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2039 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
301 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS73 KEAX 261213
NPWEAX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
713 AM CDT SUN APR 26 2009

...A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR A SMALL PART OF WEST CENTRAL
MISSOURI...

.AN AREA OF DECAYING SHOWERS IS CREATING A SMALL SWATH OF HIGH WINDS
WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH POSSIBLE.

MOZ043-261400-
/O.NEW.KEAX.HW.W.0002.090426T1213Z-090426T1400Z/
CASS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RAYMORE...HARRISONVILLE...PLEASANT HILL
713 AM CDT SUN APR 26 2009

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A HIGH
WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING. 

DECAYING SHOWERS FROM HARRISONVILLE TO NEAR PLEASANT HILL ARE
CREATING BRIEF BUT HIGH WINDS TO 60 MPH. THESE WINDS MAY CAUSE MINOR
DAMAGE AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. THE WINDS SHOULD SUBSIDE BY
AROUND 8 AM.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED
OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS
OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE.

&&

$$

MJ
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS73 KEAX 261352
NPWEAX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
852 AM CDT SUN APR 26 2009

MOZ043-261500-
/O.CAN.KEAX.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-090426T1400Z/
CASS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RAYMORE...HARRISONVILLE...PLEASANT HILL
852 AM CDT SUN APR 26 2009

...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS CANCELLED THE
HIGH WIND WARNING. 

THE DECAYING SHOWERS HAVE DISSIPATED FURTHER AS THEY MOVED EAST...AND
ARE NO LONGER PRODUCING HIGH WINDS IN THEIR WAKE. THEREFORE THE HIGH
WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

$$

NRR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 7:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXClay30 min
Apr 25, 8:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXClinton32 min
Apr 25, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Clinton, DeKalb42 min
Apr 25, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte29 min
Apr 25, 8:59 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCaldwell, Clinton, DeKalb31 min
Apr 25, 9:20 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCaldwell, Daviess25 min
Apr 25, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDaviess, DeKalb29 min
Apr 25, 9:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXPlatte24 min
Apr 25, 9:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXDaviess27 min
Apr 25, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBuchanan, Platte37 min
Apr 25, 9:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXDaviess32 min
Apr 25, 10:05 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXBuchanan, Clinton, Platte22 min
Apr 25, 10:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXGrundy32 min
Apr 25, 11:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXDeKalb32 min
Apr 25, 11:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXMercer36 min
Apr 25, 11:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXGentry29 min
Apr 26, 12:06 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXWorth24 min
Apr 26, 12:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXBuchanan34 min
Apr 26, 12:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXAndrew30 min
Apr 26, 12:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXBuchanan29 min
Apr 26, 1:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXDeKalb32 min
Apr 26, 4:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXAtchison27 min
Apr 26, 4:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXHolt, Nodaway31 min
Apr 26, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXAtchison, Nodaway15 min
Apr 26, 5:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXGentry, Worth31 min
Apr 26, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry, Nodaway, Worth22 min
Apr 26, 6:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXHarrison34 min
Apr 26, 6:37 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEAXAndrew, Holt, Nodaway6 hr
Apr 26, 6:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXAndrew, Holt, Nodaway37 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.