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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at May 6, 2012, 1:24 PM CDT for Chariton County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 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 6, 2012, 1:24 PM CDT (18:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2012, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
County Chariton County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 1880 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 May 6, 1:08 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 1:08 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 524 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2012 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-071030- 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- 524 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA TOWARD NORTHERN IOWA ALONG AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY SURGING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. THIS ACTIVITY WILL TRACK SOUTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHERN MISSOURI THIS MORNING...WITH STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. AN EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL BE IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION TODAY AS THE COLD FRONT ENTERS NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI LATE THIS MORNING AND TRACKS SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. THIS FRONT WILL HELP TO TRIGGER MORE WIDESPREAD STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND CANNOT RULE OUT THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ISOLATED TORNADO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY STILL BE LINGERING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TO NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI MONDAY MORNING BEFORE EXITING SOUTHEAST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA BY EARLY MONDAY AFTERNOON. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM THIS LINGERING ACTIVITY IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. ACH
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 8:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Harrison | 26 min |
| May 6, 9:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Ray | 40 min |
| May 6, 9:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Clay | 37 min |
| May 6, 10:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Jackson | 34 min |
| May 6, 11:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Jackson | 5 hr |
| May 6, 12:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Jackson | 33 min |
| May 6, 12:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Clinton | 31 min |
| May 6, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton, DeKalb | 32 min |
| May 6, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, DeKalb | 31 min |
| May 6, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Randolph | 28 min |
| May 6, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard, Saline | 33 min |
| May 6, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 30 min |
| May 6, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 29 min |
| May 6, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton | 44 min |
| May 6, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 28 min |
| May 6, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 29 min |
| May 6, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cass | 29 min |
| May 6, 5:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Daviess | 45 min |
| May 6, 5:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Cass | 26 min |
| May 6, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 36 min |
| May 6, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 24 min |
| May 6, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson, Johnson | 28 min |
| May 6, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson | 30 min |
| May 6, 6:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 5 hr |
| May 6, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 30 min |
| May 6, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Gentry | 45 min |
| May 6, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 28 min |
| May 6, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 32 min |
| May 6, 4:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Johnson | 35 min |
| May 6, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 30 min |
| May 6, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Johnson | 46 min |
| May 6, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 25 min |
| May 6, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 35 min |
| May 6, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 19 min |
| May 6, 6:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 2 hr |
| May 6, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 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.