Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2012, 4:18 PM CDT for Harrison County, Mercer County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2012, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2012, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Harrison County, MO, Mercer County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:30 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 2 N Eagleville, MO | |
| May 24, 4:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Ne Eagleville, MO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -551 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS53 KEAX 242118
SVREAX
MOC081-129-242145-
/O.NEW.KEAX.SV.W.0052.120524T2118Z-120524T2145Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
418 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...
NORTHWESTERN MERCER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
* AT 414 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF
EAGLEVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS. MINOR TREE
DAMAGE...WITH LIMBS UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER BROKEN.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EAGLEVILLE AND BLYTHEDALE.
THIS WILL IMPACT
I-35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 106 AND 114.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4054 9368 4041 9415 4054 9421 4058 9410
4058 9368
TIME...MOT...LOC 2118Z 246DEG 46KT 4050 9403
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60 MPH
$$
AB1 follow-up statement
581
WWUS53 KEAX 242129
SVSEAX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
429 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2012
MOC081-129-242145-
/O.CON.KEAX.SV.W.0052.000000T0000Z-120524T2145Z/
HARRISON MO-MERCER MO-
429 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN
MERCER AND NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM CDT...
AT 427 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF
LAMONI...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS. MINOR TREE
DAMAGE...WITH LIMBS UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER BROKEN.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN HARRISON AND NORTHWESTERN MERCER
COUNTIES.
THIS WILL IMPACT
I-35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 106 AND 114.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4050 9410 4058 9398 4058 9368 4054 9368
4041 9415
TIME...MOT...LOC 2129Z 254DEG 38KT 4055 9387
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60 MPH
$$
ABThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Harrison | 48 min |
| May 24, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison, Mercer | 45 min |
| May 24, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison, Mercer | 18 min |
| May 24, 5:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Mercer | 47 min |
| May 24, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb | 35 min |
| May 24, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Putnam, Schuyler | 41 min |
| May 24, 6:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Clay | 37 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.