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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2024, 5:02 PM CDT for Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 14 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 18, 2024, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2024, 5:16 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Pettis County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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 18, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1359 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 18, 4:15 PM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 4:15 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO 420 AM CDT Thu Apr 18 2024 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-190930- 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- 420 AM CDT Thu Apr 18 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 A complex of strong thunderstorms is working their way eastward between I-70 and US-36. These storms have moved into a less favorable environment; however, gusty winds and some hail remain possible. Further showers and thunderstorms are expected until early afternoon as a cold front moves through the area. Some isolated stronger storms are possible south of US-50 and MO HWY 2. More detailed information can be accessed at... https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday Areas of frost will be possible early Sunday morning across far northern MO. More detailed information can be accessed at... https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 18, 2:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 18, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Platte | 45 min |
| Apr 18, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Platte | 44 min |
| Apr 18, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Ray | 34 min |
| Apr 18, 5:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Clinton, Platte | 26 min |
| Apr 18, 5:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton | 31 min |
| Apr 18, 10:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Cass | 42 min |
| Apr 18, 11:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Chariton | 45 min |
| Apr 18, 11:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Macon | 37 min |
| Apr 18, 11:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Bates | 45 min |
| Apr 18, 11:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Chariton | 40 min |
| Apr 18, 11:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Randolph | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 12:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Macon | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Henry, Johnson | 49 min |
| Apr 18, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 51 min |
| Apr 18, 3:00 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | EAX | Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Mercer, Nodaway and 1 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 18, 4:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Pettis | 36 min |
| Apr 18, 12:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Leavenworth | 27 min |
| Apr 18, 1:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Leavenworth | 35 min |
| Apr 18, 1:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 36 min |
| Apr 18, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 33 min |
| Apr 18, 9:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Miami | 41 min |
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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.