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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 14, 2024Cooper County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2024, 3:20 PM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It was in force for 25 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: Mar 14, 2024, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired: Mar 14, 2024, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Cooper County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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
Mar 14, 1:33 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 1236 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 544 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 547 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 25.1

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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 Mar 14, 3:03 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 3:03 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 14, 5:08 AM CDT, 10 hours 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 14, 1:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 2:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 2:44 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 2:45 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 2:49 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 14, 3:08 PM CDT, 12 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
Mar 13, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, Platte	29 min
Mar 13, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	37 min
Mar 13, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	45 min
Mar 13, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	36 min
Mar 13, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Ray	44 min
Mar 13, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan	37 min
Mar 13, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Ray	48 min
Mar 13, 9:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Harrison, Mercer	44 min
Mar 13, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Atchison, Holt, Nodaway	27 min
Mar 13, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette, Ray	27 min
Mar 13, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt, Nodaway	31 min
Mar 13, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Lafayette, Linn, Livingston, Saline	40 min
Mar 13, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	39 min
Mar 13, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston, Saline	49 min
Mar 13, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, Platte	42 min
Mar 13, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Macon, Randolph	49 min
Mar 13, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Ray	42 min
Mar 13, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	34 min
Mar 14, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Livingston, Ray	43 min
Mar 14, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Clinton, Platte	49 min
Mar 14, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Daviess, Grundy, Livingston	32 min
Mar 14, 12:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston and 2 more	40 min
Mar 14, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Ray	49 min
Mar 14, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Chariton, Linn, Macon, Randolph, Schuyler and 1 more	48 min
Mar 14, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, DeKalb, Platte	41 min
Mar 14, 2:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Andrew, Atchison, Holt, Nodaway	34 min
Mar 14, 2:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Carroll, Chariton	32 min
Mar 14, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	34 min
Mar 14, 3:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Ray	36 hr
Mar 14, 3:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Jackson	22 min
Mar 14, 3:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	28 min
Mar 14, 3:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson, Johnson	31 min
Mar 14, 3:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson	36 min
Mar 14, 4:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline	44 min
Mar 14, 4:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	36 min
Mar 14, 4:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Saline	32 min
Mar 14, 4:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cooper, Pettis	31 min
Mar 14, 4:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Randolph	36 min
Mar 14, 5:09 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	20 hr
Mar 14, 5:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard, Randolph	34 min
Mar 14, 5:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	42 hr
Mar 14, 5:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	25 min
Mar 14, 6:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	35 min
Mar 14, 6:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	28 min
Mar 14, 6:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Pettis	35 min
Mar 14, 7:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	21 min
Mar 14, 3:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cooper	22 min
Mar 14, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cooper	33 min
Mar 13, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	49 min
Mar 13, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	46 min
Mar 13, 9:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Atchison	16 min
Mar 14, 2:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Linn, Miami	27 min
Mar 14, 5:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Linn	32 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.