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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 18, 2025, 7:31 AM CDT for Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 12 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
- Oct 18, 2025, 7:31 AM CDT (12:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2025, 7:43 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 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 12:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1043 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1203 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 8:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Harrison | 30 min |
| Oct 17, 8:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Harrison | 24 min |
| Oct 17, 8:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Harrison | 37 min |
| Oct 18, 2:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Platte | 30 min |
| Oct 18, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 31 min |
| Oct 18, 2:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Clay | 26 min |
| Oct 18, 3:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Ray | 32 min |
| Oct 18, 8:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Henry | 29 min |
| Oct 18, 1:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Leavenworth | 23 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.