Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2021, 5:18 PM CDT for Cass County, Jackson County, Missouri; Johnson County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 2021, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2021, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Johnson County, KS, Cass County, MO, Jackson County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 5:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Olathe, KS | QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL |
| Aug 12, 5:38 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 58 | Johnson Co Arpt, KS | |
| Aug 12, 5:38 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Johnson Co Arpt, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 951 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -437 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted.
723
WUUS53 KEAX 122218
SVREAX
KSC091-MOC037-095-122245-
/O.NEW.KEAX.SV.W.0111.210812T2218Z-210812T2245Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
518 PM CDT Thu Aug 12 2021
The National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Johnson County in east central Kansas...
Northwestern Cass County in west central Missouri...
Southwestern Jackson County in west central Missouri...
* Until 545 PM CDT.
* At 517 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Olathe,
moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa, Leawood, Grandview, Belton, Gardner,
Stanley, Clare and Lackmans.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 35 in Kansas between mile markers 211 and 223.
Interstate 470 near mile marker 0.
Interstate 435 between mile markers 0 and 2, and between mile
markers 72 and 83.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3882 9496 3896 9482 3894 9454 3876 9455
TIME...MOT...LOC 2217Z 279DEG 21KT 3887 9477
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
HBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 4:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Harrison | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 4:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Mercer | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 5:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison, Mercer | 29 min |
| Aug 12, 6:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Mercer | 30 min |
| Aug 12, 8:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Schuyler | 8 min |
| Aug 12, 8:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Schuyler | 37 min |
| Aug 12, 1:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EAX | Putnam, Schuyler | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 1:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Daviess, Grundy, Sullivan | 48 min |
| Aug 12, 1:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Schuyler | 30 min |
| Aug 12, 2:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Putnam, Schuyler | 2 hr |
| Aug 12, 2:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Caldwell, Linn, Livingston | 29 min |
| Aug 12, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Linn, Livingston | 27 min |
| Aug 12, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Daviess, Linn, Livingston | 29 min |
| Aug 12, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Livingston | 26 min |
| Aug 12, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Livingston, Saline | 32 min |
| Aug 12, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 32 min |
| Aug 12, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Macon, Randolph | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 37 min |
| Aug 12, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 34 min |
| Aug 12, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray, Saline | 36 min |
| Aug 12, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette | 34 min |
| Aug 12, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 8 min |
| Aug 12, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson, Johnson | 8 min |
| Aug 12, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson, Johnson | 32 min |
| Aug 12, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Cass | 45 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.