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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

January 17, 201918 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this winter storm watch at Jan 17, 2019, 2:29 PM CST for 18 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Jan 18, 2019, 3:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 17, 2019, 2:29 PM CST (20:29 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 18, 2019, 3:00 PM CST
Expired
Jan 18, 2019, 2:56 AM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO

Counties Adair County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 287 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 12:00Z on 2019-01-17Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2019-01-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Jan 17, 11:45 AM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 11:45 AM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 17, 4:47 AM CST, 9 hours 42 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
447 AM CST Thu Jan 17 2019

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-181100-
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-
447 AM CST Thu Jan 17 2019

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

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

 Patchy slick spots are possible on roads this morning due to
 overnight freezing drizzle along and north I-70. To the south,
 dense fog will reduce visibilities and may hamper travel this
 morning.

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

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday

 Accumulating snow is expected Friday night through Saturday.
 Dangerously cold wind chills are also possible behind this system
 Saturday night into Sunday.

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 17, 2:17 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryEAXBates, Cass, Cooper, Henry, Howard, Johnson and 1 more8 hr
Jan 17, 2:29 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryEAXAdair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 30 more41 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Missouri, 2019Every winter storm watch in 2019

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.