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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 2010Atchison County, Holt County, Nodaway County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2010, 5:14 PM CDT for Atchison County, Holt County, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 31 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: May 26, 2010, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2010, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Atchison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 464 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 May 26, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
245 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010

.DISCUSSION...

IN THE SHORT TERM PORTIONS OF THE FCST...MAIN CONCERNS FALLS WITH
AIRMASS TSRA THIS AFTN AS WELL AS THU AFTN. CURRENTLY...MODIFICATION
OF LATEST AIRCRAFT SOUNDINGS FROM KCI ALONG WITH POINT FCST SOUNDINGS
SUGGEST THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WITH POCKETS
OF 1500-2000 J/KG MLCAPE AND A NON-EXISTENT CAP. BEGINNING TO SEE
SCT TSRA DEVELOP AS WEAK MCV ALOFT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA ALONG WITH
THE COMBINING FORCES OF WEAK BOUNDARY LAYER CONVERGENCE. THIS SCT
CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTN AND VERY EARLY EVE MUCH
LIKE TUE AS COLLAPSING STORM OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES BEGIN TO DEVELOP NEW
CONVECTION. SHEAR REMAINS VERY WEAK IN NATURE...WITH STORM MOTIONS
ONLY SUGGESTING A SLOW 5 TO 10 MPH CRAWL TO THUNDERSTORMS. WHILE THE
POOR SHEAR WOULD SUGGEST LITTLE IN ORGANIZED ACTIVITY...SOUNDINGS
SUGGEST THE POTENTIAL FOR COLLAPSING WATER LOADED DOWNDRAFTS WHICH
WOULD BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ISOLATED DAMAGING WINDS. STORM CORES
WILL NEED TO REMAIN ELEVATED FOR A PERIOD OF TIME TO PRODUCE HAIL
GIVEN THE LACK OF MID-LVL SHEAR AND POSITION OF FREEZING LVL...A MORE
LIKELY SCENARIO WOULD BE DECENT AMOUNTS OF SMALL HAIL. OF BIGGER
CONCERN WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING GIVEN
THEIR SLOW MOVING NATURE AND RELATIVELY HIGH PWAT VALUES. THESE TSRA
WILL CONTINUE TO SUNSET BEFORE LOSING DIURNAL SUPPORT.

FOR TONIGHT...SFC HIGH PRESSURE WILL BEGIN TO OOZE SOUTHWARD INTO
THE AREA BUT WE'LL LIKELY SEE LITTLE DROP IN SFC MOISTURE
INITIALLY.  IN FACT...WITH A PARTLY CLOUDY SKY ALOFT WOULDN'T BE
SURPRISED TO SEE AREAS OF FOG AND PERHAPS LOCALLY DENSE FOG
DEVELOP.

THURSDAY...HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO SINK SOUTHWARD AS MID-LVL
RIDGE AXIS BEGINS TO INTENSIFY OVER THE CENTRAL CONUS.
HOWEVER...LOW-LVL MOISTURE WILL BE SLOW TO EXIT SOUTHWARD AND FEEL
THAT A RELATIVELY UNCAPPED ENVIRONMENT MAY ALLOW FOR MORE ISOLATED
TSRA DEVELOPMENT SOUTH OF I-70 IN THE AFTN.  NO REAL INFLUX OF COLD
AIR ALOFT...THUS TEMPS WILL REMAIN IN THE LOW 80S.

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...PRETTY SPECTACULAR CONDITIONS WILL BE LIKELY AS
WE HEAD INTO THE MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY WEEKEND.  WITH THE MID-LVL
RIDGE AXIS JUST TO OUR WEST...A PERIOD OF MID-LVL NORTHERLY FLOW
WILL PREVAIL.  SFC HIGH PRESSURE IN THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES WILL
KEEP A NE SFC WIND PREVALENT AND ALSO ALLOW DEW POINTS TO LOWER
SOMEWHAT.  AMPLE MIXING OF A +14C TO +16C AIRMASS ALOFT AND DECENT
SUNSHINE SHOULD PROMOTE READINGS IN THE LOWER 80S.

SUNDAY AND MONDAY...THE LONGWAVE TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN CONUS WILL
BEGIN TO LIFT NE BY SATURDAY NIGHT FORCING A WEAK COLD FRONT INTO
THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY.  CONVECTION SHOULD DEVELOP ALONG THE COLD
FRONT IN THE WESTERN PLAINS SAT NIGHT AND MAY TRY TO REACH THE NW
CWA SUNDAY MORNING...BUT MORE LIKELY WILL DIE ON OUR DOORSTEP.
MODEL CONSENSUS PUSHES THE COLD FRONT THROUGH THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT
INTO MONDAY...WITH A POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORM REDEVELOPMENT ALONG
THE FRONT AS IT MOVES THROUGH.  TEMPS WILL REMAIN NEAR TO
SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH THE PERIOD.

TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...MINOR ADJUSTMENTS MADE THROUGH THE REMAINDER
OF THE FCST AS SOME MODEL DISAGREEMENT EXISTS.  PREFER THE ECMWF
WHICH WOULD PULL ANOTHER WEAK S/W THROUGH THE NORTHERN
STREAM...PERHAPS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A WEAKENING MCS THROUGH THE
MIDWEST TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY NIGHT.  ANOTHER SUCH WAVE MAY MAKE ITS
WAY THROUGH THE NORTHERN PLAINS AT THE END OF THE WEEK...BUT THAT
SCENARIO IS FAR TO UNCERTAIN TO PROMOTE INCREASING POPS ABOVE
CLIMATOLOGY ATTM.

DUX

&&

.AVIATION...

FOR THE 18Z TAFS...EXPECTING SCT AIRMASS CONVECTION TO ONCE AGAIN
DEVELOP OVER THE LOWER MO RIVER VALLEY THIS AFTN.  SOUNDINGS SUGGEST
A RELATIVELY UNCAPPED AIRMASS ALOFT WITH MODERATE
INSTABILITY...HOWEVER FINDING FOCUS MECHANISMS HAS PROVEN MUCH MORE
DIFFICULT.  THUS...WHILE HIGH CONFIDENCE EXISTS IN DEVELOPMENT OF
PRECIP...LOW CONFIDENCE ON ANY IMPACT TO THE TERMINALS. FOR
NOW...FEEL THE BEST WAY TO HANDLE CONVECTION IS WITH A VCTS THROUGH
THE MID AND LATE AFTN HOURS...AND AMEND AS NEEDED.  ANY TSRA THIS
AFTN WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS.

PRECIP SHOULD RAPIDLY DISSIPATE BY SUNSET LEAVING DRY CONDITIONS
OVER THE TERMINALS THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.  WHILE SFC RIDGING
WILL TRY TO EDGE INTO THE AREA OVERNIGHT...FEEL WINDS MAY BE LIGHT
ENOUGH ALONG WITH SATURATED GROUNDS TO PRODUCE A SHORT LIVED PERIOD
OF MVFR FOG TOWARDS DAYBREAK.  OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED
FOR THU MORNING.

DUX

&&

.EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...NONE.
KS...NONE.
&&

Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 12:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1250 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-271800-
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-
1250 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010

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 WARM AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL BE CONDUCIVE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. AN ISOLATED
STRONG TO SEVERE STORM MAY BE POSSIBLE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
DOWN BURST WINDS POSSIBLE.

ADDITIONALLY...DUE TO THE SLOW MOVING NATURE OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS...LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL MAY BE POSSIBLE.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE
70 THURSDAY AFTERNOON. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY
NIGHT AS A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE REGION. AT THIS TIME THE
PROBABILITY FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. IN
ADDITION...REPORTS OF HEAVY RAINFALL OR FLOODING ARE REQUESTED.

DUX

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 4:33 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
433 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010

KSZ104-105-MOZ028-029-037-262215-
CLAY MO-JACKSON MO-JOHNSON KS-PLATTE MO-WYANDOTTE KS-
433 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN
EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...AND EASTERN WYANDOTTE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST
KANSAS...AND SOUTHEASTERN PLATTE...SOUTHWESTERN CLAY AND WESTERN
JACKSON COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 515 PM CDT...

AT 428 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PARKVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  RIVERSIDE...GLADSTONE...KANSAS CITY KANSAS...CLAYCOMO...NORTH
  KANSAS CITY...KANSAS CITY...WESTWOOD...FAIRWAY...MISSION HILLS...
  MISSION...MERRIAM...PRAIRIE VILLAGE...HOUSTON LAKE...OAKVIEW...
  NORTHMOOR...KANSAS CITY DOWNTOWN...AVONDALE...WESTWOOD HILLS...
  MISSION WOODS AND OAKWOOD PARK.

TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY.

LAT...LON 3920 9481 3920 9480 3921 9480 3931 9467
      3915 9440 3897 9465 3903 9472 3919 9483
TIME...MOT...LOC 2133Z 319DEG 9KT 3920 9466

ACH/NRR

Special weather statement, May 26, 4:54 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
454 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010

MOZ001-002-011-262245-
ATCHISON MO-HOLT MO-NODAWAY MO-
454 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN ATCHISON...NORTHWESTERN
NODAWAY AND NORTHERN HOLT COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM CDT...

AT 449 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR TARKIO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS 30 TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BURLINGTON JUNCTION...SKIDMORE AND QUITMAN.

TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY.

LAT...LON 4032 9493 4016 9531 4050 9544 4059 9521
TIME...MOT...LOC 2154Z 334DEG 13KT 4046 9528

ACH/NRR

Local storm report, May 26, 4:56 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
456 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0453 PM     HAIL             10 NW KANSAS CITY       39.22N 94.68W
05/26/2010  E1.00 INCH       PLATTE             MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

ABAILEY

Local storm report, May 26, 4:58 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
458 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0455 PM     HAIL             2 N WEATHERBY LAKE      39.27N 94.70W
05/26/2010  E0.88 INCH       PLATTE             MO   PUBLIC

&&

AJ

Local storm report, May 26, 5:01 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
501 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0458 PM     HAIL             1 NW PLATTE WOODS       39.24N 94.67W
05/26/2010  E1.00 INCH       PLATTE             MO   PUBLIC

&&

ABAILEY

Local storm report, May 26, 5:12 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
512 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0507 PM     HEAVY RAIN       WEATHERBY LAKE          39.24N 94.70W
05/26/2010  E0.00 INCH       PLATTE             MO   EMERGENCY MNGR

            MINOR FLOODING...WATER FLOWING OUT OF DITCH ONTO ROADS IN
            AND AROUND WEATHERBY LAKE. SOME PEA SIZED HAIL TOO.

&&

ABAILEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Bates	3 hr
May 25, 8:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Johnson	12 hr
May 26, 12:02 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	18 hr
May 26, 1:58 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	11 hr
May 26, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cass	29 min
May 26, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	31 min
May 26, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Buchanan	41 min
May 26, 4:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	51 min
May 26, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	31 min
May 26, 5:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Clay, Platte	108 min
May 26, 5:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	66 min
May 25, 8:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Linn	4 hr
May 26, 1:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	50 min
May 26, 2:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Johnson	4 hr
May 26, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	39 min
May 26, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Linn	44 min
May 26, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Wyandotte	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2010 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.