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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 16, 2024Bates County, Cass County, Johnson County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2024, 12:56 PM CDT for Bates County, Cass County, Johnson County, 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: Apr 16, 2024, 12:56 PM CDT (17:56 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2024, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Johnson County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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
Apr 16, 10:22 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 270 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -324 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1225 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 306 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 325 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 Apr 16, 12:41 PM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 12:41 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 16, 3:49 AM CDT, 9 hours 7 minutes before

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

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-170900-
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-
349 AM CDT Tue Apr 16 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

Two rounds of thunderstorms are possible today. Strong to severe
weather remains a possibility.

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

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday

The probability of hazardous weather is low.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 16, 12:20 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 16, 12:23 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 16, 12:32 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 16, 12:35 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 16, 12:48 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 16, 12:55 PM CDT, 1 minute 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
Apr 16, 3:36 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more	15 hr
Apr 16, 7:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway	44 min
Apr 16, 8:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Atchison, Holt, Nodaway	47 min
Apr 16, 8:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison, Nodaway, Worth	38 min
Apr 16, 9:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Platte	51 min
Apr 16, 10:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, Platte	39 min
Apr 16, 10:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Clay, Clinton, Platte	20 min
Apr 16, 10:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Jackson and 1 more	29 min
Apr 16, 10:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Grundy and 3 more	46 min
Apr 16, 11:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Macon, Schuyler	44 min
Apr 16, 11:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Adair, Putnam, Schuyler, Sullivan	27 min
Apr 16, 11:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Adair, Macon	23 min
Apr 16, 11:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Mercer, Sullivan	31 min
Apr 16, 12:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer, Putnam	27 min
Apr 16, 12:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Mercer, Putnam, Sullivan	34 min
Apr 16, 12:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	32 min
Apr 16, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam, Sullivan	39 min
Apr 16, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Livingston and 1 more	45 min
Apr 16, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Lafayette, Linn, Livingston and 3 more	29 min
Apr 16, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston, Putnam and 1 more	36 min
Apr 16, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Chariton, Linn, Macon, Putnam, Schuyler and 1 more	44 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.