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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 11, 2025Bates County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2025, 4:21 PM CDT for Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 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
Aug 11, 2025, 4:21 PM CDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Bates County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2025-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 615 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2025-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
615 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1101 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Aug 11, 4:09 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 4:09 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 11, 5:05 AM CDT, 11 hours 16 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
0505 AM CDT Mon Aug 11 2025

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-121005-
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-
0505 AM CDT Mon Aug 11 2025

This hazardous weather outlook is for northwest...north central and
west central Missouri...as well as extreme eastern Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Through tonight.

The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low.

.KEY MESSAGES...

- Showers and storms remain possible this morning and through
  the afternoon into the evening.

- Heavy rainfall remains possible this morning and through the
  afternoon into the evening.

- Drier conditions and warming temperatures are likely by mid
  to late week.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 7:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXCass33 min
Aug 10, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Johnson29 min
Aug 10, 10:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXJohnson30 min
Aug 10, 11:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXJohnson33 min
Aug 10, 11:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXJackson41 min
Aug 11, 12:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXJackson, Lafayette37 min
Aug 11, 5:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXBates38 min
Aug 11, 6:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXHenry26 min
Aug 11, 6:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXPettis29 min
Aug 11, 6:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXHenry33 min
Aug 11, 6:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXHenry46 min
Aug 10, 11:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXJohnson23 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.