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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2011, 11:28 PM CDT for Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 16, 2011, 11:28 PM CDT (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2011, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
County Doniphan County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 394 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
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 Jun 16, 6:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 6:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 7:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 706 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-171130- 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- 706 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATE THIS EVENING OR EARLY TONIGHT IN NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI...SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA OR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA. THUNDERSTORMS WOULD THEN LIKELY TRACK TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AFFECTING MUCH OF NORTHWESTERN AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS NORTHEASTERN KANSAS. LARGE HAIL WOULD BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS SHOULD THEY FORM. ADDITIONALLY...A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL KANSAS WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK TO THE EAST POSSIBLY IMPACTING EASTERN KANSAS AND NORTHWESTERN AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI LATER TONIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE THE MAIN HAZARD WITH THESE STORMS SHOULD THEY HOLD TOGETHER ACROSS KANSAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE ONGOING ALONG THE MISSOURI AND IOWA BORDER FRIDAY MORNING...BEFORE LIFTING NORTHEAST. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS LOW. THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE OUTLOOK AREA LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...ALONG AND BEHIND A COLD FRONT. A FEW SEVERE STORMS MAY BE POSSIBLE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREATS. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE TUESDAY TO EARLY WEDNESDAY TIME FRAME AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT ENTERING THE OUTLOOK AREA. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD EXCESSIVE RAINFALL IS NOT EXPECTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THROUGH NEXT WEEK...LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. THIS COULD LEAD TO FLOODING OF SMALLER STREAMS AND RIVERS AND COULD BRING ADDITIONAL RISES TO THE MISSOURI RIVER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHEASTERN KANSAS AND NORTHWESTERN AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. CDB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 11:28 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1128 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011 KSZ102-MOZ011-170500- DONIPHAN KS-HOLT MO- 1128 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN HOLT AND NORTHERN DONIPHAN COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... AT 1125 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HIGHLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... HIGHLAND...TROY...OREGON...IOWA POINT AND FANNING. THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3989 9534 4003 9510 3980 9496 3972 9534 TIME...MOT...LOC 0428Z 245DEG 17KT 3981 9526 CDB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 12:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Atchison | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 12:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Buchanan | 51 min |
| Jun 17, 1:16 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Holt | 5 hr |
| Jun 17, 1:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Doniphan | 33 min |
| Jun 17, 2:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Wyandotte | 34 min |
| Jun 17, 2:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Wyandotte | 25 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2011Every special weather statement in 2011
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.