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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at Mar 20, 2011, 3:59 AM CDT for Worth 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 2011, 3:59 AM CDT (08:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2011, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
County Worth County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 407 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 20, 12:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 12:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 710 PM CDT SAT MAR 19 2011 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-201130- 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- 710 PM CDT SAT MAR 19 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A SECOND ROUND OF SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING AND SPREAD INTO NORTHERN MISSOURI LATER TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN KANSAS LATER TONIGHT...AFFECTING NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI AFTER MIDNIGHT. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. HOWEVER...SMALL HAIL WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WOULD BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS MAY STILL BE LINGERING ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI SUNDAY MORNING. HOWEVER...THE THUNDERSTORM THREAT WILL EXIT NORTHERN MISSOURI LATER SUNDAY MORNING AS A WARMER AND MORE STABLE LAYER ALOFT SPREADS ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA AND INHIBITS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS. OTHERWISE...A VERY ENERGETIC STORM SYSTEM WILL ENTER THE PLAINS TUESDAY...WITH THUNDERSTORM CHANCES INCREASING ALONG A FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE WEST ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SEVERE WEATHER MAY BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS...PARTICULARLY ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND FAR WESTERN MISSOURI. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS PARTS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. MJ
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 20, 3:45 AM CDT, 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 9:09 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Henry | 24 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:45 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cass, Henry, Johnson | 13 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 26 min |
| Mar 20, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 14 min |
| Mar 20, 4:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Worth | 19 min |
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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.