Alert archive / Missouri / Special Weather Statements in 2024

Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 11, 2024Bates County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at Jul 11, 2024, 6:21 PM CDT for Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 11, 2024, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2024, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 40

County Bates County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 402 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -248 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1292 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 11, 3:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 3:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 4:02 AM CDT, 14 hours 19 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

CMS

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 6:21 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
621 PM CDT Thu Jul 11 2024

MOZ053-112345-
Bates MO-
621 PM CDT Thu Jul 11 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN BATES COUNTY
THROUGH 645 PM CDT...

At 620 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Rich Hill, moving east at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Rockville.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3804 9424 3805 9425 3805 9432 3817 9433
      3816 9405 3803 9406 3803 9409 3805 9410
      3804 9411 3806 9413 3806 9416 3804 9420
      3805 9421 3804 9422 3803 9424
TIME...MOT...LOC 2320Z 269DEG 12KT 3807 9427

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

Blair

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Holt	27 min
Jul 10, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	24 min
Jul 10, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	28 min
Jul 11, 2:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Platte	27 min
Jul 11, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	48 min
Jul 10, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	30 min
Jul 10, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth, Wyandotte	19 min
Jul 10, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Leavenworth, Wyandotte	31 min
Jul 10, 10:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	39 min
Jul 11, 2:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Doniphan	32 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Missouri, 2024 Every special weather statement in 2024

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.