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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 16, 2012Worth County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2012, 2:13 PM CDT for Worth County, Missouri. 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, 2012, 2:13 PM CDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2012, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Worth County, MO

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 16, 12:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 157 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -271 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

546 
WUUS53 KEAX 161913
SVREAX
MOC227-161945-
/O.NEW.KEAX.SV.W.0070.120616T1913Z-120616T1945Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
213 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN WORTH COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 208 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES EAST OF
  HOPKINS...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...QUARTER 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...
  GRANT CITY AND SHERIDAN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4057 9437 4047 9434 4041 9461 4047 9461
      4047 9463 4048 9463 4057 9463 4058 9438
TIME...MOT...LOC 1913Z 250DEG 11KT 4051 9464

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60 MPH

$$

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2 follow-up statements

077 
WWUS53 KEAX 161928
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
228 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2012

MOC227-161945-
/O.CON.KEAX.SV.W.0070.000000T0000Z-120616T1945Z/
WORTH MO-
228 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN WORTH
COUNTY UNTIL 245 PM CDT...

AT 226 PM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM GRANT CITY TO RAVENWOOD...AND MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT...MINOR TREE DAMAGE...WITH LIMBS UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER
         BROKEN.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GRANT CITY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4057 9437 4047 9434 4041 9461 4047 9461
      4047 9463 4048 9463 4057 9463 4058 9438
TIME...MOT...LOC 1928Z 258DEG 19KT 4052 9448 4040 9469

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60 MPH

$$

BOOKBINDER

802 
WWUS53 KEAX 161942
SVSEAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
242 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2012

MOC227-161952-
/O.EXP.KEAX.SV.W.0070.000000T0000Z-120616T1945Z/
WORTH MO-
242 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN WORTH COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 245 PM CDT...

THE LINE OF STORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR
PROPERTY.  HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH
THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

LAT...LON 4057 9437 4047 9434 4041 9461 4047 9461
      4047 9463 4048 9463 4057 9463 4058 9438
TIME...MOT...LOC 1942Z 258DEG 19KT 4053 9438 4041 9459

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 12:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Holt	27 min
Jun 16, 12:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	30 min
Jun 16, 12:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway	30 min
Jun 16, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	36 min
Jun 16, 2:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Mercer	45 min
Jun 16, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Mercer	31 min
Jun 16, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer, Putnam	35 min
Jun 16, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam	35 min
Jun 16, 3:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Mercer	52 min
Jun 16, 3:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Adair, Macon, Putnam	43 min
Jun 16, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	34 min
Jun 16, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	27 min
Jun 16, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Randolph	34 min
Jun 16, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Howard	49 min
Jun 16, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	37 min
Jun 16, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Lafayette	44 min
Jun 16, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.