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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Kansas City, MO

January 31, 20164 counties in Missouri; Doniphan County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this winter storm watch at Jan 31, 2016, 3:43 AM CST for 4 counties in Missouri; Doniphan County, Kansas. It took effect at Feb 1, 2016, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 31, 2016, 3:43 AM CST (09:43 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 1, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 1, 2016, 3:27 AM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO

Counties Doniphan County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 170 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2016-01-31Temperature 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2016-01-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.