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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 31, 2016Randolph County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at Mar 31, 2016, 4:44 AM CDT for Randolph County, Missouri. It was in force for 31 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: Mar 31, 2016, 4:44 AM CDT (09:44 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2016, 5:15 AM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO

County Randolph County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 275 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: 1661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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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 Mar 31, 2:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 2:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 30, 8:52 PM CDT, 7 hours 52 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
852 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-010200-
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-
852 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

 THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE LOWER MISSOURI VALLEY
 OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. WHILE A STRONG WIND GUST OR SMALL HAIL CANNOT BE
 RULED OUT...SEVERE STORMS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

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

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

 NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 31, 1:41 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
141 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

KSZ057-MOZ043-053-310715-
MIAMI KS-BATES MO-CASS MO-
141 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MIAMI...CASS AND
NORTHWESTERN BATES COUNTIES UNTIL 215 AM CDT...

AT 140 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
DREXEL...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF LOUISBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HARRISONVILLE...PECULIAR...LOUISBURG...GARDEN CITY...ARCHIE...DREXEL...
CLEVELAND...FREEMAN...LAKE ANNETTE...WEST LINE AND MERWIN.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3839 9461 3839 9466 3859 9478 3878 9436
      3852 9417 3837 9461
TIME...MOT...LOC 0640Z 242DEG 39KT 3848 9461

MURRAY

Special weather statement, Mar 31, 2:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
215 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

MOZ043-044-053-054-310745-
HENRY MO-JOHNSON MO-BATES MO-CASS MO-
215 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN JOHNSON...
SOUTHEASTERN CASS...NORTHEASTERN BATES AND NORTHWESTERN HENRY
COUNTIES UNTIL 245 AM CDT...

AT 214 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
ADRIAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ADRIAN...GARDEN CITY...ARCHIE...URICH...CREIGHTON...HARTWELL...BALLARD...
QUICK CITY AND LA TOUR.

LAT...LON 3828 9427 3855 9442 3870 9406 3841 9387
TIME...MOT...LOC 0714Z 243DEG 35KT 3839 9432

MURRAY

Special weather statement, Mar 31, 2:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
249 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

MOZ044-045-054-310815-
HENRY MO-PETTIS MO-JOHNSON MO-
249 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN PETTIS...
SOUTHEASTERN JOHNSON AND NORTHEASTERN HENRY COUNTIES UNTIL 315 AM
CDT...

AT 248 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
LEETON...OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINDSOR...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WINDSOR...KNOB NOSTER...WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE...LA MONTE...LEETON...
GREEN RIDGE...CALHOUN...WHITEMAN AFB AND POST OAK.

LAT...LON 3869 9386 3883 9335 3857 9323 3851 9348
      3851 9351 3850 9352 3844 9375
TIME...MOT...LOC 0748Z 254DEG 42KT 3860 9370

MURRAY

Special weather statement, Mar 31, 4:44 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 1:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cass	34 min
Mar 31, 2:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cass	30 min
Mar 31, 2:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Pettis	26 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Missouri, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.