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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 26, 202122 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this wind advisory at Apr 26, 2021, 8:44 AM CDT for 22 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 2021, 8:44 AM CDT (13:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2021, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO

All 29 counties

Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:47 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1035 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 802 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1019 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

602 
WWUS73 KEAX 261344
NPWEAX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
844 AM CDT Mon Apr 26 2021

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ002>006-012>015-020>023-028>031-037-038-
043-044-053-270100-
/O.NEW.KEAX.WI.Y.0006.210426T1344Z-210427T0100Z/
Atchison KS-Miami-Linn KS-Doniphan-Leavenworth-Wyandotte-
Johnson KS-Nodaway-Worth-Gentry-Harrison-Mercer-Andrew-De Kalb-
Daviess-Grundy-Buchanan-Clinton-Caldwell-Livingston-Platte-Clay-
Ray-Carroll-Jackson-Lafayette-Cass-Johnson MO-Bates-
Including the cities of Atchison, Paola, Osawatomie, Louisburg, 
Pleasanton, La Cygne, Mound City, Wathena, Elwood, Troy, 
Highland, Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Lansing, 
Kansas City Kansas, Overland Park, Stanley, Olathe, Shawnee, 
Lenexa, Maryville, Grant City, Albany, Stanberry, King City, 
Bethany, Princeton, Mercer, Savannah, Country Club Villa, 
Maysville, Stewartsville, Osborn, Union Star, Clarksdale, 
Gallatin, Jamesport, Trenton, St. Joseph Airport, St. Joseph, 
Cameron, Plattsburg, Lathrop, Hamilton, Braymer, Polo, 
Breckenridge, Chillicothe, Parkville, Platte City, Riverside, 
Weatherby Lake, Weston, Gladstone, Liberty, Excelsior Springs, 
Richmond, Lawson, Carrollton, Kansas City, Independence, Odessa, 
Higginsville, Lexington, Concordia, Belton, Raymore, 
Harrisonville, Pleasant Hill, Warrensburg, Butler, Adrian, 
and Rich Hill
844 AM CDT Mon Apr 26 2021

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...South winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.

* WHERE...Portions of east central and northeast Kansas and 
  north central, northwest and west central Missouri.

* WHEN...Until 8 PM CDT this evening.

* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. 
  Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may 
  result.


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.

&&

$$

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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.