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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 20244 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2024, 3:45 AM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2024, 3:45 AM CDT (08:45 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2024, 4:19 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Saline County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 25, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 1483 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1322 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 332 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 26, 12:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 12:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 3:47 AM CDT, 23 hours 58 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
347 AM CDT Sat May 25 2024

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-260900-
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-
347 AM CDT Sat May 25 2024

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

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

Strong to severe storms will be possible tonight into Sunday morning
across the entire area.

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

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday

Strong to severe storms will be potentially ongoing Sunday morning.
Another round of strong to severe storms will be possible Sunday
afternoon, primarily across northeast and central Missouri.

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 12:33 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 12:37 AM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 12:38 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 1:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 2:23 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 3:19 AM CDT, 26 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	50 min
May 25, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	40 min
May 25, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	31 min
May 25, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Cass, Clay, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Ray	46 min
May 25, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt, Nodaway	57 min
May 25, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	40 min
May 25, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	48 min
May 26, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	21 min
May 26, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	61 min
May 26, 3:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	26 min
May 26, 4:07 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette, Saline	3 hr
May 26, 4:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Pettis, Saline	36 min
May 26, 5:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Randolph	3 hr
May 26, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	29 min
May 26, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	27 min
May 26, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	23 min
May 26, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Atchison	27 min
May 25, 10:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Miami	35 min
May 26, 1:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	42 min
May 26, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2024 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2024

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.