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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 20, 2025Putnam County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2025, 12:19 AM CDT for Putnam County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 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
Jul 20, 2025, 12:19 AM CDT (05:19 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Putnam County, MO

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 246 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2025-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 783 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2025-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
783 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1060 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 12:57 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXPutnam, Schuyler33 min
Jul 20, 1:30 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXAdair30 min
Jul 20, 1:39 AM CDTFlood WatchEAXAdair, Chariton, Howard, Linn, Macon, Putnam and 3 more35 hr
Jul 20, 3:47 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEAXAdair, Putnam, Schuyler, Sullivan3 hr
Jul 20, 3:48 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryEAXAndrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess and 5 more23 hr

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.