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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 7, 2015Howard County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at Apr 7, 2015, 4:23 AM CDT for Howard County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 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: Apr 7, 2015, 4:23 AM CDT (09:23 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 2015, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO

County Howard County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 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 Apr 7, 4:13 AM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 4:13 AM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 7, 4:12 AM CDT, 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
412 AM CDT TUE APR 7 2015

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-080915-
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-
412 AM CDT TUE APR 7 2015

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

 THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE EAST OF THE KC METRO THIS MORNING. BRIEF
 PERIODS OF HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE ARE POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGEST
 STORMS.

 AN ADDITIONAL ROUND OF ISOLATED STORMS IS POSSIBLE LATE THIS
 AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING...MAINLY IN AREAS FROM THE KC METRO
 AND SOUTHEASTWARD. HAIL IS POSSIBLE IF STORMS DEVELOP.

 MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT...
 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MEDIA/EAX/EMBRIEFING1/EMBRIEFING1.PDF

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

 STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.
 THE HIGHEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
 INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.

 MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT...
 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MEDIA/EAX/EMBRIEFING1/EMBRIEFING1.PDF

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 7, 3:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
321 AM CDT TUE APR 7 2015

MOZ022-070845-
CALDWELL MO-
321 AM CDT TUE APR 7 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CALDWELL COUNTY UNTIL 345 AM
CDT...

AT 316 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF KINGSTON...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF CAMERON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  HAMILTON AND KINGSTON.

LAT...LON 3978 9379 3961 9399 3953 9417 3971 9420
      3979 9406
TIME...MOT...LOC 0821Z 236DEG 22KT 3966 9412

BLAIR

Special weather statement, Apr 7, 3:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
322 AM CDT TUE APR 7 2015

MOZ030-031-070845-
CARROLL MO-RAY MO-
322 AM CDT TUE APR 7 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN RAY AND WESTERN
CARROLL COUNTIES UNTIL 345 AM CDT...

AT 321 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF HARDIN...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF
RICHMOND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  RUSSELLVILLE AND STET.

LAT...LON 3931 9382 3940 9396 3953 9378 3953 9376
      3954 9376 3956 9373 3946 9358
TIME...MOT...LOC 0822Z 236DEG 22KT 3938 9387

BLAIR

Special weather statement, Apr 7, 3:56 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
356 AM CDT TUE APR 7 2015

MOZ014-022-023-070930-
CALDWELL MO-DAVIESS MO-LIVINGSTON MO-
356 AM CDT TUE APR 7 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN LIVINGSTON...SOUTHEASTERN
DAVIESS AND NORTHEASTERN CALDWELL COUNTIES UNTIL 430 AM CDT...

AT 354 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRECKENRIDGE...OR 6 MILES
EAST OF HAMILTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BRECKENRIDGE AND LOCK SPRINGS.

LAT...LON 3991 9384 3984 9362 3968 9384 3974 9401
TIME...MOT...LOC 0856Z 224DEG 25KT 3974 9388

BLAIR

Local storm report, Apr 7, 4:14 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
414 AM CDT TUE APR 07 2015

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

0412 AM     HAIL             7 N BRECKENRIDGE        39.86N 93.80W
04/07/2015  E0.75 INCH       DAVIESS            MO   PUBLIC

            REPORT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA

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LAFLIN

Special weather statement, Apr 7, 4:23 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
423 AM CDT TUE APR 7 2015

MOZ040-071000-
HOWARD MO-
423 AM CDT TUE APR 7 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN HOWARD COUNTY UNTIL 500
AM CDT...

AT 422 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW FRANKLIN...OR 9 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF FAYETTE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  FAYETTE...NEW FRANKLIN AND FRANKLIN.

LAT...LON 3901 9256 3898 9256 3898 9284 3899 9287
      3902 9288 3901 9289 3902 9291 3913 9291
      3924 9243
TIME...MOT...LOC 0923Z 258DEG 31KT 3909 9283

BLAIR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 7, 3:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette, Saline	27 min
Apr 7, 3:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Caldwell	24 min
Apr 7, 3:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Carroll	23 min
Apr 7, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Daviess	24 min
Apr 7, 3:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Caldwell	34 min
Apr 7, 5:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Livingston	29 min
Apr 7, 8:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Howard	27 min
Apr 7, 9:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	40 hr

Nearby

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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.