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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 2024Johnson County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2024, 10:24 PM CDT for Johnson County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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, 10:24 PM CDT (03:24 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2024, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Johnson County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 955 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.9

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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, 6:27 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 6:27 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 5:03 AM CDT, 17 hours 21 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
503 AM CDT Sun May 26 2024

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-271015-
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-
503 AM CDT Sun May 26 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

Morning thunderstorms will exit the area by sunrise. Additional
scattered thunderstorms may redevelop across portions of Missouri
this afternoon and evening. A few storms over central Missouri may be
strong to marginally severe.

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

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 9:24 PM CDT, 1 hour before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant HIll MO
924 PM CDT Sun May 26 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0915 PM     Hail             5 SE Mercer             40.46N 93.46W
05/26/2024  E1.50 Inch       Mercer             MO   Public

&&

BT

Local storm report, May 26, 9:40 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 9:43 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 9:49 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 9:52 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 10:21 PM CDT, 3 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 26, 7:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Buchanan	34 min
May 26, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer	46 min
May 26, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer, Putnam, Sullivan	33 min
May 26, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison, Worth	40 min
May 26, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Linn, Macon, Sullivan	51 min
May 26, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Linn, Macon	62 min
May 26, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess	46 min
May 26, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon, Randolph	24 min
May 26, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Caldwell, Clinton, DeKalb	42 min
May 27, 12:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Pettis	38 min
May 27, 12:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Saline	34 min
May 27, 1:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Chariton	31 min
May 26, 10:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	24 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.