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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 18, 2011Linn County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at Jun 18, 2011, 4:52 AM CDT for Linn County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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 18, 2011, 4:52 AM CDT (09:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2011, 5:30 AM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO

County Linn County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 2975 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1379 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 4.9

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The text

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

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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 18, 12:18 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 12:18 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1218 AM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011

...UPDATED AVIATION DISCUSSION...

.DISCUSSION...

LOW LEVEL BOUNDARIES ARE NOT IN SHORT SUPPLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
SATELLITE AND RADAR DATA SHOW A COUPLE OF EAST-WEST BOUNDARIES FROM
EAST CENTRAL KS THROUGH WEST CENTRAL MO. HARD TO SAY WHERE THE TRUE
WARM FRONT LIES AFTER THE CONTAMINATION LEFT OVER FROM THE DEPARTED
MORNING MCS. HOWEVER...BASED ON LATEST SPC KINEMATIC FIELDS WILL
PLACE A WARM FRONT FROM CENTRAL KS EAST THROUGH THE SOUTHERN CWA
CURVING SE THROUGH THE MO BOOTHEEL. ANOTHER BOUNDARY LIES JUST NORTH
OF THIS FROM NEAR CNK THROUGH MKC AND ALONG THE MO RIVER. CURRENTLY
FLAT BUT AGITATED CU HAS FORMED ALONG/SOUTH OF THESE BOUNDARIES WITH
SURFACE BASED CAPES IN EXCESS OF 4000 J/KG. GUESS ONE COULD SAY THE
AIRMASS IS EXTREMELY UNSTABLE. WITH H7 TEMPERATURES +11C OR WARMER
OVER EASTERN KS/WEST CENTRAL MO THE AIRMASS IS CURRENTLY
CAPPED...BUT INHIBITION IS NEARLY GONE AS NOTED BY CIN VALUES OF
25-50 J/KG. HARD TO LOCATE ANY TYPE OF MID LEVEL VORTICITY MAX THAT
COULD BE ENOUGH TO INITIATE STORMS. ALSO KEEPING AN EYE ON THE WEAK
COLD FRONT WHICH LIES ACROSS SOUTHEAST NE.

12Z 4KM ARW-NMM DOES SUPPORT A CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF STORMS DEVELOPING
ALONG BOTH THE COLD FRONT (VERY LATE AFTERNOON) AND KS PORTION OF
WARM FRONT (BETWEEN 01Z-02Z). ACTIVITY SHOULD TRACK IN A GENERAL
EASTERLY DIRECTION. IF STORMS FORM THEY SHOULD BECOME SEVERE DUE TO
THE EXTREME INSTABILITY. 0-6KM SHEAR OF 30KTS IS JUST BARELY ENOUGH
TO SUPPORT A FEW SUPERCELLS WITH MULTICELLULAR STORMS MORE LIKELY
AND AN MCS OR TWO EVENTUALLY.

MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE RIDGING EXPECTED TO MOVE IN WITH SUBSIDENCE
TOMORROW SO MOST OF THE DAY SHOULD BE DRY...HUMID AND VERY WARM.
SATURDAY NIGHT LOOKING INTERESTING AS MODELS SHOW A CONSENSUS ON A
LARGE MCS FORMING NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT. DUE TO WHAT HAPPENS WITH
OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM TONIGHTS ACTIVITY SOUTHERN KS/NW OK APPEAR
TO BE THE FAVORITE REGIONS FOR INITIATION WITH THE ACTIVITY QUICKLY
MOVING NEWD THROUGH EASTERN KS AND WEST CENTRAL MO. SEVERE WEATHER
AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WOULD BE POSSIBLE IF AS LARGE OF AN MCS
FORMS AS BEING ADVERTISED BY SEVERAL MODELS. HAVE ENOUGH CONFIDENCE
TO INCREASE POPS TO LOW END OF LIKELY RANGE.

ANOTHER FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BE IN OR NEAR NORTHERN MO SUNDAY
EVENING SO ONCE AGAIN THERE WILL BE A THREAT FOR CONVECTION.

MJ

MEDIUM RANGE (MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY)...

MEDIUM RANGE MODELS REMAIN IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH NEXT
WEEK...WITH ONLY SUBTLE DIFFERENCES REGARDING A TROUGH THAT WILL
SWING THROUGH THE CENTRAL CONUS MIDWEEK. ON MONDAY...WARM FRONT WILL
SURGE FROM NORTHERN MISSOURI EARLY IN THE DAY INTO SOUTHERN
MINNESOTA BY LATE AFTERNOON...LEAVING THE ENTIRE CWA WARM SECTORED
AND DRY IN THE PRESENCE OF A STRONG EML.

ALL MED RANGE MODELS AND ENSEMBLES AGREE ON A COLD FRONT SWINGING
THROUGH THE CWA LATE TUESDAY AS A SURFACE LOW TRACKS INTO THE UPPER
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. ALTHOUGH BEST UPPER SUPPORT WILL TRACK NORTH OF
THE REGION IN CLOSER PROXIMITY TO THE UPPER LOW...FRONTAL
CONVERGENCE...STRONG INSTABILITY AND PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES
APPROACHING 2 INCHES SHOULD FAVOR A BAND OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TRACKING THROUGH THE AREA TUES AND TUES NIGHT. STAYED
CLOSE TO A MODEL CONSENSUS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD. MODEST
AGREEMENT EXISTS AMONG MED RANGE MODELS THAT 850 TEMPS WILL DROP
BELOW 15C BY THURSDAY. THIS SUPPORTS SURFACE TEMPS NEAR OR SLIGHTLY
BELOW AVERAGE. DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH MOST OF THE LATTER
HALF OF THE WORK WEEK...UNTIL A WARM FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA FROM
THE SOUTHWEST LATE THURSDAY.

HAWBLITZEL

&&

.AVIATION...

INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS DOUGLAS COUNTY WILL PROPAGATE TOWARDS
KMCI AND KMKC OVER THE NEXT HOUR WITH ROUGH TIMING BRINGING THIS
ACTIVITY INTO THE TERMINALS BY 0600 TO 0615Z. HAVE INDICATED 20G30KT
WINDS BUT SHOULD THE STORM INTENSIFY...WINDS MAY BE STRONGER THAN
CURRENTLY FORECAST. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN THE VICINITY OF
THE TERMINALS OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS BEFORE MESOSCALE EVOLUTION OF
THE STORMS LEAD TO A LESS CERTAIN FORECAST. OTHERWISE...THUNDERSTORM
CHANCES WILL INCREASE AGAIN TOMORROW AFTERNOON ALTHOUGH EXACT TIMING
AND LOCATION IS HIGHLY UNCERTAIN AT THE MOMENT.

DEROCHE

&&

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

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 7:12 PM CDT, 9 hours 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
712 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2011

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-181100-
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-
712 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

 CONDITIONS APPEAR FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
 ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA...BOTH ALONG A WARM FRONT ACROSS EAST
 CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS ALONG A COLD
 FRONT THAT WILL ADVANCE SOUTHEAST FROM NEBRASKA LATER THIS
 EVENING. DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS AND LARGE HAIL APPEAR TO BE
 THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS INTO THE EVENING AND
 OVERNIGHT HOURS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

 IN THE WAKE OF EARLY MORNING THUNDERSTORMS...THE COLD FRONT WILL
 BECOME STATIONARY ACROSS THE REGION ON SATURDAY...SETTING THE FOCUS
 FOR A POTENTIALLY ACTIVE SEVERE WEATHER EPISODE DURING THE
 AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. CONDITIONS APPEAR INCREASINGLY
 FAVORABLE FOR A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT MAY CONTAIN VERY
 LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES...ALONG WITH
 TORRENTIAL RAINFALL DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS
 ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS INTO WESTERN MISSOURI.

 IF SUFFICIENT SUNSHINE CAN RETURN TO THE REGION LATE TOMORROW
 MORNING AND AFTERNOON...A VERY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS WILL ALLOW
 HEAT INDICES TO REACH THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 90S.

 ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM AND COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO
 MISSOURI EARLY NEXT WEEK. THERE WILL BE A THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS
 MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
 POSSIBLE.

 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 NECESSARY THIS EVENING ALONG AND SOUTH OF
 INTERSTATE 70...AS WELL AS FAR NORTHWEST MISSOURI LATER THIS
 EVENING.

BOOKBINDER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
232 AM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011

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

0118 AM     TSTM WND GST     OLATHE                  38.89N 94.81W
06/18/2011  E60 MPH          JOHNSON            KS   PUBLIC

            VIA TWITTER

&&

ABAILEY

Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
240 AM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011

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

0159 AM     TSTM WND DMG     8 SW HOLDEN             38.63N 94.09W
06/18/2011                   JOHNSON            MO   AMATEUR RADIO

            TREE BRANCH FELL ON POWERLINE...KNOCKING THE LINE DOWN

&&

ABAILEY

Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
243 AM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011

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

0232 AM     TSTM WND GST     WHITEMAN AFB            38.73N 93.55W
06/18/2011  M62.00 MPH       JOHNSON            MO   ASOS

&&

ABAILEY

Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:58 AM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
258 AM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011

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

0250 AM     TSTM WND GST     CLINTON                 38.37N 93.77W
06/18/2011  M56 MPH          HENRY              MO   AWOS

&&

BOOKBINDER

Local storm report, Jun 18, 3:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
300 AM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011

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

0242 AM     TSTM WND GST     WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE 38.73N 93.55W
06/18/2011  M62 MPH          JOHNSON            MO   ASOS

            MEASURED AT WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE ASOS SZL

&&

DDEROCHE

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:52 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
452 AM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011

KSZ060-MOZ053-181030-
LINN KS-BATES MO-
452 AM CDT SAT JUN 18 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LINN AND WESTERN BATES COUNTIES
UNTIL 530 AM CDT...

AT 450 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF BLUE MOUND...OR 9 MILES
NORTHWEST OF MOUND CITY...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...
AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE ADRIAN...AMORET...AMSTERDAM...BLUE
MOUND...FOSTER...HUME...LA CYGNE...MOUND CITY...PARKER...PASSAIC...
PLEASANTON...PRESCOTT...RICH HILL AND WORLAND.

THUNDERSTORMS POSE A VARIETY OF HAZARDS TO THOSE OUTDOORS...INCLUDING
HAIL... STRONG WINDS THAT CAN CREATE DANGEROUS FLYING PROJECTILES AND
DEBRIS...AS WELL AS DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 3804 9508 3826 9508 3827 9507 3833 9507
      3842 9434 3805 9434 3805 9460 3804 9462
TIME...MOT...LOC 0953Z 268DEG 50KT 3820 9492

HATCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	28 min
Jun 18, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	32 min
Jun 18, 1:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Clay, Platte	39 min
Jun 18, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson	43 min
Jun 18, 1:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette	39 min
Jun 18, 2:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Clay, Clinton, Ray	50 min
Jun 18, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cooper, Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis and 1 more	44 min
Jun 18, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Henry, Howard, Johnson, Pettis, Saline	34 min
Jun 18, 3:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Randolph, Saline	47 min
Jun 18, 5:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	19 min
Jun 18, 6:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison	43 min
Jun 18, 7:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison, Mercer	27 min
Jun 18, 9:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Adair, Macon, Putnam, Schuyler, Sullivan	4 hr
Jun 17, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami	34 min
Jun 18, 12:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	35 min
Jun 18, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Miami	37 min
Jun 18, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	32 min
Jun 18, 1:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Miami	17 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.