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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 23, 20164 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 2016, 6:51 PM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 23, 2016, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Buchanan County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Platte County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 23, 7:15 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	2 Ne Smithville, MO	HAIL UP TO PENNY SIZE COVERING THE GROUND

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 23, 3:03 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -826 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 562 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 648 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

900 
WUUS53 KEAX 232351
SVREAX
MOC021-047-049-165-240015-
/O.NEW.KEAX.SV.W.0004.160323T2351Z-160324T0015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
651 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN CLINTON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI...
  NORTHEASTERN PLATTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...
  NORTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...
  SOUTHEASTERN BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 651 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CAMDEN
  POINT...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF PLATTE CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SMITHVILLE...PLATTE CITY...PLATTSBURG...GOWER...AGENCY...TRIMBLE...
  EDGERTON...DEARBORN...CAMDEN POINT...TRACY...RIDGELY AND HOOVER.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 29 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 19 AND 23.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN
MISSOURI.

LAT...LON 3932 9463 3937 9480 3967 9474 3967 9453
      3951 9435
TIME...MOT...LOC 2351Z 206DEG 32KT 3944 9469 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

LEIGHTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 23, 4:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	28 min
Mar 23, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	38 min
Mar 23, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Holt, Nodaway	48 min
Mar 23, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt, Nodaway, Worth	31 min
Mar 23, 6:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, DeKalb	23 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.