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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2025, 5:52 AM CDT for Jackson County, Missouri; Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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 19, 2025, 5:52 AM CDT (10:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2025, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Johnson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Jackson County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 1454 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 4:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Wyandotte | 29 min |
| Aug 19, 5:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Wyandotte | 25 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.