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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 4, 2016Gentry County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2016, 10:21 PM CDT for Gentry County, Missouri. 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
Aug 4, 2016, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO

County Gentry County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 144 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 173 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 00:00Z on 2016-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2778 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2016-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2778 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1740 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

559 
WWUS83 KEAX 050321
SPSEAX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1021 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016
 
MOZ004-005-013-014-050400-
HARRISON MO-GENTRY MO-DE KALB MO-DAVIESS MO-
1021 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN HARRISON...
NORTHWESTERN DAVIESS...SOUTHEASTERN GENTRY AND NORTHEASTERN DEKALB
COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT...

AT 1020 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8
MILES NORTHWEST OF PATTONSBURG...OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF ALBANY...MOVING
EAST AT 25 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BETHANY...PATTONSBURG...COFFEY AND MCFALL. 

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 IN MISSOURI BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 76 AND
89.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 4000 9435 4017 9442 4028 9404 4007 9393
TIME...MOT...LOC 0320Z 252DEG 23KT 4012 9427 

$$

JULY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 11:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXPutnam38 min
Aug 5, 12:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXAdair, Schuyler50 min

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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.