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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 14, 2025Buchanan County, Platte County, Missouri; Atchison County, Doniphan County, Leavenworth County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2025, 12:12 PM CDT for Buchanan County, Platte County, Missouri; Atchison County, Doniphan County, Leavenworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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, 2025, 12:12 PM CDT (17:12 UTC)
Expired: Mar 14, 2025, 12:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Buchanan County, MO, Platte County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 398 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 392 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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 Mar 14, 10:12 AM CDT, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 10:12 AM CDT, 2 hours before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 14, 4:08 AM CDT, 8 hours 4 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
408 AM CDT Fri Mar 14 2025

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-150915-
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-
408 AM CDT Fri Mar 14 2025

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 very strong storm system will move through the region on today.
Severe thunderstorms are forecast to develop near or just east of the
Kansas-Missouri border during the afternoon, racing eastward through
central and northeast Missouri by early evening. Damaging wind
gusts, marginally severe hail, and a couple of brief tornadoes are
all possible. In addition, strong to damaging non-thunderstorm wind
gusts are expected across the area this afternoon and evening. With
very dry air moving into the region from the southwest during the
afternoon, fire-weather conditions will become extremely critical,
especially for areas south of Interstate 70.

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

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday

 No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 1:11 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more	23 hr
Mar 14, 1:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Andrew	35 min
Mar 14, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Bates, Cass	37 min
Mar 14, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Bates, Cass	46 min
Mar 14, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	52 min
Mar 14, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Buchanan, Clinton	47 min
Mar 14, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Andrew	51 min
Mar 14, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Bates, Henry, Johnson	47 min
Mar 14, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Caldwell, Lafayette, Ray	43 min
Mar 14, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	DeKalb, Gentry	39 min
Mar 14, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Clay	27 min
Mar 14, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Nodaway, Worth	44 min
Mar 14, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Daviess, Harrison	42 min
Mar 14, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Clinton	16 min
Mar 14, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway	45 min
Mar 14, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Carroll, Grundy, Livingston	41 min
Mar 14, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline	51 min
Mar 14, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	DeKalb, Gentry	30 min
Mar 14, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Harrison	21 min
Mar 14, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Sullivan	48 min
Mar 14, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline	54 min
Mar 14, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Gentry, Worth	35 min
Mar 14, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Cooper	23 min
Mar 14, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	46 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.