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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 25, 2012Bates County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2012, 7:41 AM CDT for Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 19 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: May 25, 2012, 7:41 AM CDT (12:41 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2012, 8:00 AM CDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Bates County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:44 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1048 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

779 
WUUS53 KEAX 251241
SVREAX
MOC013-251300-
/O.NEW.KEAX.SV.W.0059.120525T1241Z-120525T1300Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
741 AM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BATES COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 800 AM CDT

* AT 736 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF LA CYGNE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

  HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

  IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ADRIAN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3833 9461 3847 9436 3847 9433 3836 9425
      3827 9460
TIME...MOT...LOC 1241Z 240DEG 35KT 3833 9455

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50 MPH

$$

CDB

2 follow-up statements

407 
WWUS53 KEAX 251250
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
750 AM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012

MOC013-251300-
/O.CON.KEAX.SV.W.0059.000000T0000Z-120525T1300Z/
BATES MO-
750 AM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL
BATES COUNTY UNTIL 800 AM CDT...

AT 744 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF
DREXEL...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ADRIAN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3836 9433 3831 9457 3834 9459 3847 9436
      3847 9433
TIME...MOT...LOC 1249Z 227DEG 35KT 3838 9451

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50 MPH

$$

CDB

013 
WWUS53 KEAX 251258
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
758 AM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012

MOC013-251307-
/O.EXP.KEAX.SV.W.0059.000000T0000Z-120525T1300Z/
BATES MO-
758 AM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN BATES COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 800 AM CDT...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA.  HOWEVER SMALL HAIL IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3836 9433 3831 9457 3834 9459 3847 9436
      3847 9433
TIME...MOT...LOC 1257Z 227DEG 35KT 3843 9444

$$

CDB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	30 min
May 24, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	8 min
May 24, 8:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Jackson	27 min
May 25, 6:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	30 min
May 25, 7:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Bates	28 min
May 25, 8:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Cass, Jackson	6 hr
May 25, 8:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Jackson	29 min
May 25, 9:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	6 hr
May 25, 9:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	25 min
May 25, 10:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette	6 hr
May 25, 10:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Pettis	43 min
May 25, 11:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	28 min
May 25, 11:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Cass	12 hr
May 25, 11:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	9 hr
May 25, 11:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cooper	28 min
May 25, 2:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	8 hr
May 25, 3:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Worth	42 min
May 25, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Worth	19 min
May 25, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway, Worth	42 min
May 25, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison, Mercer, Worth	28 min
May 25, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Mercer	47 min
May 25, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Putnam	42 min
May 25, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Putnam	47 min
May 25, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam, Schuyler	25 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.