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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 2, 20257 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2025, 12:50 AM CDT for 7 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 40 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: Apr 2, 2025, 12:50 AM CDT (05:50 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2025, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Andrew County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 1, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 1178 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 356 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 559 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 Apr 2, 12:30 AM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 12:30 AM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 1, 4:53 AM CDT, 19 hours 57 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
453 AM CDT Tue Apr 1 2025

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-021000-
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-
453 AM CDT Tue Apr 1 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

 Severe storms are expected tonight into tomorrow morning. Damaging
 winds, large hail, and heavy rainfall are the most likely hazards.
 A low tornado risk also exists.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday

 No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 1, 11:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 1, 11:56 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 1, 11:59 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 2, 12:41 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 2, 12:46 AM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 2, 12:47 AM CDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 10:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Bates	45 min
Apr 1, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Henry	45 min
Apr 1, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	47 min
Apr 1, 11:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Jackson	28 min
Apr 1, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Holt	44 min
Apr 1, 11:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Ray	49 min
Apr 1, 11:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Pettis	46 min
Apr 2, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway	42 min
Apr 2, 12:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Carroll	28 min
Apr 2, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry and 2 more	49 min
Apr 2, 1:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Adair, Macon	47 min
Apr 2, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Mercer	30 min
Apr 2, 1:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Putnam, Sullivan	38 min
Apr 2, 2:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Schuyler	30 min
Apr 2, 3:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	27 min
Apr 2, 3:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb and 2 more	39 min
Apr 2, 3:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Platte	34 min
Apr 2, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb and 4 more	41 min
Apr 2, 4:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte, Ray	34 min
Apr 2, 5:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	50 min
Apr 2, 5:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Cass, Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte, Ray	116 min
Apr 2, 5:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Jackson, Johnson	50 min
Apr 2, 6:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson	43 min
Apr 2, 7:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson	28 min
Apr 2, 7:24 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson, Pettis	21 min
Apr 2, 7:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Bates	12 min
Apr 2, 8:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline	23 min
Apr 2, 8:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	11 min
Apr 2, 8:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EAX	Cooper, Howard	19 min
Apr 2, 9:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Cooper, Pettis	28 min
Apr 2, 9:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Howard	15 min
Apr 2, 4:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Miami, Wyandotte	38 min

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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.