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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 28, 2019Mercer County, Putnam County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2019, 1:01 AM CDT for Mercer County, Putnam County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2019, 1:01 AM CDT (06:01 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2019, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Mercer County, MO, Putnam County, MO

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 276 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1326 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 27, 11:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 11:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 6:08 AM CDT, 18 hours 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 27, 11:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 12:27 AM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 12:47 AM CDT, 14 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
May 27, 11:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Harrison, Worth	39 min
May 28, 12:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Mercer	48 min
May 28, 12:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Mercer	43 min
May 28, 1:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Putnam	47 min
May 28, 2:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	37 min
May 28, 2:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	30 min
May 28, 2:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	33 min
May 28, 3:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Nodaway	36 min
May 28, 4:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Nodaway	45 hr
May 28, 4:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	4 days
May 28, 4:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Macon, Putnam, Schuyler	3 days
May 28, 4:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Grundy, Livingston	65 hr
May 28, 8:44 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Ray	60 hr
May 28, 8:44 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	71 hr
May 28, 9:17 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt, Nodaway	49 hr
May 28, 9:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Grundy	28 min
May 28, 10:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Grundy	31 min
May 28, 10:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Linn, Sullivan	28 min
May 28, 10:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Linn, Macon, Sullivan	49 min
May 28, 11:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Linn, Macon	54 min
May 28, 1:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Sullivan	6 hr
May 28, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt	28 min
May 28, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Gentry, Nodaway	42 min
May 28, 2:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew, DeKalb, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway, Worth	6 hr
May 28, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	23 min
May 28, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt, Nodaway	21 min
May 28, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison, Worth	30 min
May 28, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway	23 min
May 28, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison, Mercer	49 min
May 28, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, DeKalb, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway, Worth	47 min
May 28, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt, Nodaway	39 min
May 28, 3:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Grundy, Harrison, Mercer, Putnam, Schuyler and 1 more	6 hr
May 28, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt, Nodaway	43 min
May 28, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Putnam, Schuyler	52 min
May 28, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison, Mercer	35 min
May 28, 4:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt, Nodaway	9 hr
May 28, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison	48 min
May 28, 4:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Andrew, Holt, Nodaway	51 min
May 28, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, Harrison	30 min
May 28, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Mercer	52 min
May 28, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison, Mercer	51 min
May 28, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Gentry	29 min
May 28, 5:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	EAX	Gentry, Harrison	6 hr
May 28, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Harrison	45 min
May 28, 5:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Linn, Livingston, Sullivan	12 hr
May 28, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam, Sullivan	50 min
May 28, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Putnam, Schuyler, Sullivan	77 min
May 28, 6:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	6 hr
May 28, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	39 min
May 28, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	34 min
May 28, 5:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Doniphan	41 min
May 28, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	46 min
May 28, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth	28 min
May 28, 6:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threat	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	42 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.