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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at Mar 28, 2012, 6:46 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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 28, 2012, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2012, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
County Miami County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 619 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 28, 3:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 3:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 28, 12:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1256 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-291215- 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- 1256 PM CDT WED MAR 28 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 A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN DRAPED FROM NEAR KANSAS CITY TO SEDALIA TODAY. WHILE THERE IS SMALL CHANCE A FEW STORMS MAY FORM ALONG THE BOUNDARY LATER THIS AFTERNOON...THE BEST CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE LATER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL KANSAS AND TRACK ALONG THE STALLED OUT BOUNDARY. ANY STORM THAT CAN DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE BOUNDARY WILL BE CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS WELL AS AN ISOLATED TORNADO. HOWEVER THE MAIN THREAT THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT WILL BE FROM DAMAGING WINDS AS A POSSIBLE LINE OF STORMS MOVES THROUGH. THE MOST LIKELY AREAS TO SEE SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT WILL BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF A KANSAS CITY TO SEDALIA LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY AS LOW PRESSURE APPROACHES THE AREA AND A WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTHWARD. THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL EXIST DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN BY SUNDAY NIGHT. IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE ANY SEVERE THREAT AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A KANSAS CITY TO MOBERLY LINE...AND AGAIN THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA. CDB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 6:02 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 602 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012 MOZ037-038-282345- JACKSON MO-LAFAYETTE MO- 602 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN LAFAYETTE AND EASTERN JACKSON COUNTIES UNTIL 645 PM CDT... AT 559 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GRAIN VALLEY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... OAK GROVE...ODESSA...HIGGINSVILLE...MAYVIEW AND BATES CITY AS THE STORM MOVES DUE EAST DOWN INTERSTATE 70. THIS WILL IMPACT I-70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 21 AND 50. TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. LAT...LON 3911 9371 3893 9371 3898 9427 3908 9425 TIME...MOT...LOC 2301Z 276DEG 24KT 3903 9416 CUTTER
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 6:46 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
646 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012
KSZ057-290015-
MIAMI KS-
646 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN MIAMI COUNTY UNTIL 715
PM CDT...
AT 641 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR OSAWATOMIE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG
WITH HEAVY RAIN.
LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
PAOLA...LOUISBURG...FONTANA AND NEW LANCASTER.
TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY.
LAT...LON 3840 9498 3854 9503 3869 9461 3864 9461
3862 9461 3855 9461 3839 9462
TIME...MOT...LOC 2346Z 258DEG 17KT 3849 9488
CUTTERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 6:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Lafayette | 43 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.