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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 30, 2017Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at May 30, 2017, 7:47 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
May 30, 2017, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2017, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO

County Miami County, KS

The radar

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 2017-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 468 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2017-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
468 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2097 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.9

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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 30, 6:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 6:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
646 PM CDT Tue May 30 2017

.Discussion...
Issued at 231 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2017

Currently watching an area of congested cumulus trying to develop
near Topeka, which appears to be forming at the leading edge of a
moist tongue coming out of central KS. It's possible that a few
showers or storms could develop out of this activity and spread
into western MO over the next few hours, but a relatively dry
low-level airmass should keep instability rather low (1000 J/kg or
less) and cloud bases high. This should cut back on the potential
for organized strong storms, although deep layer shear values
around 40 to 50 kts could support some strong updrafts capable of
gusty downburst winds and perhaps some small hail. The potential
for these gusts to exceed 50 mph appears pretty low given the weak
instability.

A weak frontal boundary entering northern MO will stall near the
Missouri River tonight and move just slightly back north on
Wednesday. This feature will likely set the stage for more
organized thunderstorm development tomorrow evening as a weak
impulse moves in from the west. If storms move in early enough
while the airmass is still diurnally unstable, the combo of modest
instability and shear and the presence of the low level boundary
could support a few strong or severe storms with large hail and
damaging winds into Wednesday night, mainly along and just south
of the boundary which will be roughly from St. Joseph to Moberly.

Weak ridging will build in Thursday and will bring an end to
precipitation chances at least temporarily Thursday and Thursday
night. However a quick transition to quasi-zonal upper flow will
bring thunderstorm chances back to the region Friday and Friday
night, and last off-and-on into early next week. Most of these
rain chances will be instability driven in a weakly forced late
spring/early summer environment, so as of now there are no strong
signals of organized severe storms or heavy rain during this
period.

&&

.Aviation...(For the 00Z TAFS through 00Z Wednesday Evening)
Issued at 645 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2017

Ongoing storms across southern portions of the KC Metro will begin
to wave off over the next few hrs with loss of instability. Before
this occurs, IXD stands the best chance of seeing impacts with
temporary MVFR and IFR conditions possible. Elsewhere, VFR
conditions to dominate through much of the fcst period with the
next chance for shwrs/storms arriving late tomorrow afternoon.

&&

.EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KS...NONE.
MO...NONE.
&&

Discussion...Hawblitzel
Aviation...32
Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 4:50 AM CDT, 14 hours 57 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
450 AM CDT Tue May 30 2017

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-311000-
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-
450 AM CDT Tue May 30 2017

This hazardous weather outlook is for northwest...north central and
west central Missouri...as well as extreme eastern Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

 Strong to isolated severe storms are possible this afternoon and
 evening, mainly across a line extending from eastern Kansas to
 central and southern Missouri. Activity will be spotty and brief,
 though strong winds and large hail are possible within any storms
 which may develop.

 More detailed information can be accessed at...
 https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday

 Additional strong storms are possible Wednesday afternoon across
 eastern Kansas and west central Missouri. Hazards will include once
 again the potential for strong winds and isolated large hail. The
 active pattern will persist into the late week with multiple rounds
 of showers and thunderstorms expected.

 More detailed information can be accessed at...
 https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 30, 7:09 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 30, 7:47 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 7:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXCass36 min
May 30, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates38 min
May 30, 7:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXHenry47 min
May 30, 8:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXBates28 min
May 30, 8:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXBates26 min
May 31, 2:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates55 min
May 31, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates, Henry48 min
May 30, 7:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXMiami25 min
May 31, 12:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXJohnson36 min
May 31, 12:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami27 min
May 31, 1:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami38 min
May 31, 1:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn, Miami45 min
May 31, 1:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiami53 min
May 31, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn, Miami38 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.