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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 23, 2012Randolph County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at Mar 23, 2012, 3:19 PM CDT for Randolph County, Missouri. It was in force for 26 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: Mar 23, 2012, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2012, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO

County Randolph County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 280 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: 43 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Mar 23, 12:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 12:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 23, 12:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1254 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2012

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-241200-
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-
1254 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2012

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MAY BE POSSIBLE IN THE EASTERN HALF
OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.

PATCHY FOG MAY BE POSSIBLE OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT.
VISIBILITIES MAY BE REDUCED UNDER 2 MILES AT TIMES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CHANCES WILL INCREASE FROM TUESDAY TO
THURSDAY OF NEXT WEEK AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPROACHES AND STALLS
NEAR THE AREA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

DUX

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 23, 1:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 23, 2:36 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 23, 3:19 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
319 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2012

MOZ033-232045-
RANDOLPH MO-
319 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL RANDOLPH COUNTY UNTIL 345
PM CDT...

AT 317 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CAIRO...OR NEAR MOBERLY...MOVING SOUTHWEST
AT 10 MPH.

HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  MOBERLY.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.

LAT...LON 3937 9242 3942 9253 3950 9244 3947 9238
TIME...MOT...LOC 2019Z 025DEG 9KT 3947 9242

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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
Mar 23, 1:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Pettis	88 min
Mar 23, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Macon	39 min
Mar 23, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Clay	35 min
Mar 23, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Clay	31 min
Mar 23, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Carroll	28 min
Mar 23, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Grundy	23 min
Mar 23, 5:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Saline	35 min
Mar 23, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	27 min
Mar 23, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Chariton	39 min
Mar 23, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Saline	48 min
Mar 23, 6:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cooper	42 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Missouri, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.