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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO

September 1, 2014Bates County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at Sep 1, 2014, 2:39 AM CDT for Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 66 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
Sep 1, 2014, 2:39 AM CDT (07:39 UTC)
Expired
Sep 1, 2014, 3:45 AM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO

County Bates County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 145 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2014-09-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1759 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2014-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1759 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
276 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.0

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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 Aug 31, 11:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 11:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 31, 4:32 PM CDT, 10 hours 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
432 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2014

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-012145-
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-
432 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

 THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA TONIGHT AS A STRONG STORM
 SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT APPROACH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
 WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY ACROSS FAR
 NORTHWEST AND NORTH-CENTRAL MISSOURI. AS THE SYSTEM MOVES SOUTHEAST
 OVERNIGHT...CHANCES FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL
 INCREASE MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE I-70 CORRIDOR.

 MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT...
 HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IMAGES/FXC/EAX/EM1/EAX-EMBRIEFING1.PDF

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

 STRONG TO SEVERE WEATHER WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE ON MONDAY...MAINLY
 SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM ST JOSEPH TO LAMONI IOWA...AS THE COLD
 FRONT CONTINUES MOVING THROUGH THE AREA. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS
 THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT WILL AVERAGE NEAR ONE INCH OR MORE...WITH THE
 POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 31, 9:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
920 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0914 PM     TSTM WND DMG     ST JOSEPH               39.76N 94.85W
08/31/2014                   BUCHANAN           MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREE DOWN BLOCKING ROAD IN ST JOSEPH. POWER ALSO OUT IN
            PARTS OF ST JOSEPH

&&

ABAILEY
Local storm report, Aug 31, 9:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
922 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0921 PM     TSTM WND GST     12 E ST JOSEPH          39.76N 94.62W
08/31/2014  E60 MPH          BUCHANAN           MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

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Local storm report, Aug 31, 9:26 PM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
926 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0905 PM     TSTM WND GST     TROY                    39.79N 95.09W
08/31/2014  E65 MPH          DONIPHAN           KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

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Special weather statement, Sep 1, 2:39 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 31, 8:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXAndrew, Buchanan, Holt47 min
Aug 31, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan, Clinton, DeKalb, Gentry, Holt53 min
Aug 31, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte47 min
Aug 31, 10:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXJackson49 min
Aug 31, 10:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXCass48 min
Sep 1, 9:48 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan3 days
Sep 1, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper25 min
Sep 1, 6:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXJohnson25 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Missouri, 2014Every special weather statement in 2014

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.