Alert archive / Missouri / Freeze Warnings in 2020
Freeze Warning 6, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this freeze warning at Apr 17, 2020, 3:29 PM CDT for 18 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 18, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 17, 2020, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 18, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2020, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
All 25 counties
Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 244 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 412 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 17, 12:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 12:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 17, 5:24 AM CDT, 10 hours 5 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO 524 AM CDT Fri Apr 17 2020 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-181030- 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- 524 AM CDT Fri Apr 17 2020 This hazardous weather outlook is for northwest...north central and west central Missouri...as well as extreme eastern Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Snow will end this morning, and outside of slick roads in far northern Missouri, no other hazardous weather is expected. Temperatures tonight will approach or fall just below freezing in many areas. More detailed information can be accessed at... https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday Thunderstorms return on Wednesday. More detailed information can be accessed at... https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo
Nearby
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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.