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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2015, 6:10 AM CDT for Putnam County, Missouri. It was in force for 35 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
- Aug 2, 2015, 6:10 AM CDT (11:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2015, 6:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
County Putnam County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 972 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
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 Aug 2, 5:52 AM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 5:52 AM CDT, 18 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 506 AM CDT SUN AUG 2 2015 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-031015- 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- 506 AM CDT SUN AUG 2 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 ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING IN AREAS NEAR THE IOWA BORDER. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED WITH THIS MORNINGS STORMS. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD SOUTH LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST OF STORMS WILL BE ABLE TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ALONG WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI...WITH THE CHANCE OF STORMS SPREADING ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION TUESDAY. THEN THERE WILL BE SEVERAL CHANCES FOR MORE THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY THROUGH FRIDAY. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 6:10 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Livingston | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 7:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Livingston | 3 hr |
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Special Weather Statements in Missouri, 2015Every special weather statement in 2015
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.