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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 333, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 12, 2024Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2024, 1:45 AM CDT for Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 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: Jul 12, 2024, 1:45 AM CDT (06:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2024, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Saline County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 2446 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1327 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 15.6

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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 Jul 12, 12:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 12:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 4:02 AM CDT, 21 hours 43 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
402 AM CDT Thu Jul 11 2024

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-120915-
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-
402 AM CDT Thu Jul 11 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

 Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are possible this afternoon and
 tonight. A severe storm producing damaging wind gusts cannot be
 ruled out.

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

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday

 Isolated thunderstorms are again possible Friday afternoon and
 evening. Damaging wind gusts are the primary threat.

 Hot and humid conditions will return to the area this weekend into
 early next week. Heat indices are expected to exceed 100 degrees in
 many areas Saturday through Tuesday. Heat indices on Monday may
 approach or exceed 110 degrees.

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

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 11, 11:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 11, 11:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 12:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 12:14 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 1:00 AM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 1:40 AM CDT, 5 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
Jul 11, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Henry	45 min
Jul 11, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	40 min
Jul 11, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	37 min
Jul 11, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson	35 min
Jul 11, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	31 min
Jul 11, 9:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Platte	35 min
Jul 11, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	32 min
Jul 11, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	28 min
Jul 11, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	37 min
Jul 11, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	34 min
Jul 11, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	35 min
Jul 11, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	24 min
Jul 11, 10:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Platte	4 hr
Jul 11, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Platte	46 min
Jul 11, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	28 min
Jul 11, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Ray	36 min
Jul 12, 12:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Henry	39 min
Jul 12, 12:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Carroll	46 min
Jul 12, 1:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Platte	30 min
Jul 12, 1:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Saline	35 min
Jul 12, 2:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Howard	35 min
Jul 12, 1:58 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more	3 days

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.