Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2021, 8:16 PM CDT for Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Kansas; Jackson County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 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, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2021, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Johnson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Jackson County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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, 8:17 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Shawnee, KS | NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT 68TH AND LACKMAN |
| Aug 12, 8:17 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Shawnee, KS | NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT 68TH AND LACKMAN. |
| Aug 12, 8:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 2 E Lake Quivira, KS | DELAYED REPORT FROM MPING... |
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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 4214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1420 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
The text
As transmitted.
584
WUUS53 KEAX 130116
SVREAX
KSC091-209-MOC095-130145-
/O.NEW.KEAX.SV.W.0115.210813T0116Z-210813T0145Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
816 PM CDT Thu Aug 12 2021
The National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southern Wyandotte County in northeastern Kansas...
Northeastern Johnson County in east central Kansas...
West central Jackson County in west central Missouri...
* Until 845 PM CDT.
* At 816 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Lake Quivira,
moving east at 15 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...
Kansas City, Overland Park, Olathe, Shawnee, Lenexa, Leawood,
Grandview, Prairie Village, Merriam, Mission, Bonner Springs,
Edwardsville, Fairway, Mission Hills, Westwood, Lake Quivira,
Westwood Hills, Mission Woods, Countryside and Roeland Park.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 70 in Missouri between mile markers 5 and 6.
Interstate 35 in Missouri between mile markers 0 and 1.
Interstate 35 in Kansas between mile markers 221 and 235.
Interstate 635 between mile markers 0 and 3.
Interstate 470 near mile marker 0.
Interstate 435 between mile markers 0 and 10, and between mile
markers 71 and 83.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3895 9490 3908 9486 3909 9451 3889 9454
TIME...MOT...LOC 0116Z 278DEG 14KT 3901 9477
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
HB1 follow-up statement
347
WWUS53 KEAX 130136
SVSEAX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
836 PM CDT Thu Aug 12 2021
KSC091-209-MOC095-130145-
/O.EXP.KEAX.SV.W.0115.000000T0000Z-210813T0145Z/
Wyandotte KS-Johnson KS-Jackson MO-
836 PM CDT Thu Aug 12 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN WYANDOTTE...
NORTHEASTERN JOHNSON AND WEST CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT
845 PM CDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
LAT...LON 3895 9490 3908 9486 3909 9451 3889 9454
TIME...MOT...LOC 0135Z 278DEG 14KT 3900 9468
$$
HBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 7:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Wyandotte | 28 min |
| Aug 12, 8:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 27 min |
| Aug 12, 8:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Johnson | 30 min |
| Aug 12, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 24 min |
| Aug 12, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 24 min |
| Aug 12, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 23 min |
| Aug 12, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 20 min |
| Aug 12, 10:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 4 hr |
| Aug 12, 10:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Johnson | 29 min |
| Aug 12, 11:39 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 4 hr |
| Aug 12, 11:39 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 8 hr |
| Aug 12, 11:39 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 18 hr |
| Aug 12, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 12:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Atchison | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 1:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 6 hr |
| Aug 13, 5:49 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 12 hr |
| Aug 13, 7:39 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 10 hr |
| Aug 12, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Jackson | 29 min |
| Aug 12, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Ray | 15 min |
| Aug 12, 11:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Bates | 23 min |
| Aug 13, 9:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Henry | 12 hr |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.