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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 298, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2026, 12:43 AM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 1, 2026, 12:43 AM CDT (05:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2026, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 3361 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 10.3
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 May 31, 8:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 8:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 5:05 AM CDT, 19 hours 38 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
0505 AM CDT Sun May 31 2026
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-011005-
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 Sun May 31 2026
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...Monday through Saturday.
The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low.
.KEY MESSAGES...
* Line of showers and storms to move through the region
overnight/early Sunday morning.
- Best chances (50-70%) along and north of I-70.
- Locally heavy rainfall is the primary hazard, with low-end
potential for damaging winds and hail.
* Showers and storms possible again Sunday. A conditional severe
threat exists, mainly in the vicinity of and south/southeast of
the Kansas City metro.
* Hot and humid through Monday, with heat indices expected to reach
the 90s south of US-36.The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:31 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 54 hr |
| Jun 1, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 27 min |
| Jun 1, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton, Ray | 29 min |
| Jun 1, 1:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 15 min |
| Jun 1, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Clay, Jackson, Lafayette | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 1:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Macon, Randolph | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard, Randolph | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 33 min |
| Jun 1, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 23 min |
| Jun 1, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston | 35 min |
| Jun 1, 3:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Linn, Livingston | 29 min |
| Jun 1, 3:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard, Randolph, Saline | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Saline | 67 min |
| Jun 1, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 15 min |
| Jun 1, 3:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Howard | 17 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Saline | 14 min |
| Jun 1, 3:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Chariton, Linn | 28 min |
| Jun 1, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Linn, Macon, Randolph | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 3:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Howard | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Linn, Macon, Sullivan | 26 min |
| Jun 1, 4:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Randolph | 24 min |
| Jun 1, 5:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Livingston | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard, Randolph, Saline | 12 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 25 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.