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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 9, 2016Jackson County, Missouri; Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at May 9, 2016, 10:21 PM CDT for Jackson County, Missouri; Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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: May 9, 2016, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO

Counties Johnson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Jackson County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: 1656 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 9, 6:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 6:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 5:02 AM CDT, 17 hours 19 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
502 AM CDT MON MAY 9 2016

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-101015-
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-
502 AM CDT MON MAY 9 2016

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. SEVERAL ROUNDS OF
 THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS
 AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS THE PRIMARY
 THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

 STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY ACROSS
 MUCH OF MISSOURI.

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 9, 4:53 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
453 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016

MOZ001-092230-
ATCHISON MO-
453 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN ATCHISON COUNTY
UNTIL 530 PM CDT...

AT 453 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
PERU...OR 15 MILES WEST OF TARKIO...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WATSON AND PHELPS CITY.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 29 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 113 AND 123.

LAT...LON 4058 9576 4058 9548 4034 9562 4041 9566
      4046 9564 4047 9570 4049 9568 4051 9569
      4052 9566 4054 9565 4056 9568 4052 9571
      4052 9575 4053 9577
TIME...MOT...LOC 2153Z 195DEG 16KT 4052 9565

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Local storm report, May 9, 6:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 6:14 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 6:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 6:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 10:21 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1021 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016

KSZ104-105-MOZ037-043-100400-
WYANDOTTE KS-JOHNSON KS-JACKSON MO-CASS MO-
1021 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WYANDOTTE...JOHNSON...
NORTHWESTERN CASS AND SOUTHWESTERN JACKSON COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM
CDT...

AT 1020 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8
MILES SOUTHEAST OF OLATHE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE CLUSTER OF STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
KANSAS CITY...OVERLAND PARK...OLATHE...INDEPENDENCE...LEE'S SUMMIT...
SHAWNEE...LENEXA...LEAWOOD...RAYTOWN...GRANDVIEW...BELTON...PRAIRIE
VILLAGE...RAYMORE...MERRIAM...MISSION...BONNER SPRINGS...DE SOTO...
GREENWOOD...EDWARDSVILLE AND NORTH KANSAS CITY.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
 INTERSTATE 70 IN MISSOURI BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 0 AND 15.
 INTERSTATE 70 IN KANSAS BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 411 AND 423.
 INTERSTATE 35 IN MISSOURI BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 0 AND 5.
 INTERSTATE 35 IN KANSAS BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 214 AND 235.
 INTERSTATE 635 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 0 AND 8.
 INTERSTATE 470 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 0 AND 16.
 INTERSTATE 435 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 0 AND 14...AND BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 56 AND 83.

LAT...LON 3900 9492 3898 9492 3901 9491 3916 9479
      3915 9459 3914 9459 3911 9460 3915 9454
      3914 9448 3912 9446 3914 9442 3889 9427
      3874 9462 3874 9479 3899 9493
TIME...MOT...LOC 0320Z 224DEG 23KT 3883 9469

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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
May 10, 2:18 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	23 hr
May 10, 9:28 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	6 days
May 10, 9:28 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	5 days

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.