Alert archive / Kansas / Special Weather Statements in 2015

Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO

September 7, 2015Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at Sep 7, 2015, 10:32 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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 7, 2015, 10:32 PM CDT (03:32 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 2015, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO

County Miami County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 1383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -203 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1372 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 275 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</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 Sep 7, 6:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 6:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 7, 5:30 AM CDT, 17 hours 2 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
530 AM CDT MON SEP 7 2015

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-081030-
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-
530 AM CDT MON SEP 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

 HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING
 THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING WITH REDEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING. AN
 ISOLATED SEVERE STORM OR TWO IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING OVER NORTHERN
 MISSOURI.

 MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT...
 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

 HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THE THREAT FOR HEAVY
 RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY AND TUESDAY
 NIGHT.

 MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT...
 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 7, 10:32 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1032 PM CDT MON SEP 7 2015

KSZ057-105-080415-
MIAMI KS-JOHNSON KS-
1032 PM CDT MON SEP 7 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN JOHNSON AND MIAMI
COUNTIES UNTIL 1115 PM CDT...

AT 1032 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES SOUTHEAST OF EDGERTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PAOLA...SPRING HILL...OSAWATOMIE...LOUISBURG...EDGERTON...DREXEL...
CHILES...BUCYRUS...HILLSDALE AND WAGSTAFF.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 IN KANSAS BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 200 AND
203.

LAT...LON 3856 9507 3875 9506 3877 9461 3846 9461
TIME...MOT...LOC 0332Z 266DEG 22KT 3867 9494

MELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 7, 10:53 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Gentry	3 days
Sep 7, 10:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	48 min
Sep 8, 12:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Nodaway, Worth	5 hr
Sep 8, 3:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway	36 min
Sep 8, 3:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway	36 min
Sep 8, 6:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	25 hr
Sep 8, 6:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	49 min
Sep 8, 9:17 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston	3 days
Sep 8, 10:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	5 days
Sep 8, 10:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	5 days

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2015 Every 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.