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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 334, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 16, 2024Macon County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2024, 5:49 AM CDT for Macon County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 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 16, 2024, 5:49 AM CDT (10:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2024, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Macon County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:52 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 264 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: 3794 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1052 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 341 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 5.6
Supercell composite: 33.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 16, 3:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 3:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 5:03 AM CDT, 46 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
0503 AM CDT Tue Jul 16 2024

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-171003-
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-
0503 AM CDT Tue Jul 16 2024

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

.DAY ONE...Through tonight.

There will be a chance for intermittent thunderstorms through late
tonight. A few storms could be strong to marginally severe, and
could produce locally moderate to heavy rainfall.

Please go to weather.gov/phi/ehwo for more information on
potential weather hazards.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday.

The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 5:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	47 min
Jul 16, 6:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Clinton, DeKalb	47 min
Jul 16, 6:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, Platte	32 min
Jul 16, 6:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Buchanan	2 hr
Jul 16, 7:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Livingston and 1 more	40 min
Jul 16, 7:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Clay, Lafayette, Ray, Saline	39 min
Jul 16, 7:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Platte	53 min
Jul 16, 8:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Saline	48 min
Jul 16, 8:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, Platte	47 min
Jul 16, 8:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte	40 min
Jul 16, 8:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Macon, Randolph	43 min
Jul 16, 11:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Cooper, Pettis	108 min

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.