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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

November 25, 20157 counties in Missouri; Atchison County, Doniphan County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this winter storm watch at Nov 25, 2015, 3:46 PM CST for 7 counties in Missouri; Atchison County, Doniphan County, Kansas. It took effect at Nov 26, 2015, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 25, 2015, 3:46 PM CST (21:46 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 26, 2015, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Nov 26, 2015, 4:04 AM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO

Counties Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 12:00Z on 2015-11-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2015-11-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 343 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1166 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
343 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Nov 25, 11:58 AM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 25, 11:58 AM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 25, 4:46 AM CST, 11 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
446 AM CST WED NOV 25 2015

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-261100-
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-
446 AM CST WED NOV 25 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

 NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

 RAIN WILL OVERSPREAD THE ENTIRE AREA THURSDAY WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS
 UP TO 2 INCHES.

 MINOR ICING IS POSSIBLE OVER FAR NORTHEAST KS AND NORTHWEST MO
 THURSDAY NIGHT.

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 25, 3:52 PM CSTFlood WatchEAXBates, Cass, Cooper, Henry, Howard, Johnson and 3 more50 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Missouri, 2015Winter Storm Watches in Kansas, 2015Every winter storm watch 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.