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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 406, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2026, 11:08 PM CDT for Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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 20, 2026, 11:08 PM CDT (04:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2026, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Doniphan County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 516 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1348 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
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 Jun 20, 6:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 6:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 5:04 AM CDT, 18 hours 4 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO 0504 AM CDT Sat Jun 20 2026 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-211004- 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- 0504 AM CDT Sat Jun 20 2026 This hazardous weather outlook is for northwest...north central and west central Missouri...as well as extreme eastern Kansas. .DAY ONE...Through tonight. Please go to https://weather.gov/media/eax/DssPacket.pdf for more information on potential weather hazards. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Please go to https://weather.gov/media/eax/DssPacket.pdf for more information on potential weather hazards. .KEY MESSAGES... - Lingering light rains and isolated rumbles of thunder this morning - Severe storms possible late tonight through Sunday. Heavy rain with flood potential is forecast. A Flood Watch is in effect.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 7:59 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cass, Henry, Johnson | 20 hr |
| Jun 20, 8:29 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Saline | 14 hr |
| Jun 20, 8:37 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston | 36 hr |
| Jun 20, 8:54 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper | 17 hr |
| Jun 21, 2:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Andrew, Holt | 5 hr |
| Jun 21, 2:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Buchanan | 48 min |
| Jun 21, 3:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan, Platte | 5 hr |
| Jun 21, 3:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Platte | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 3:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | DeKalb | 50 min |
| Jun 21, 4:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Clay, Clinton, Platte | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 4:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 4 hr |
| Jun 21, 4:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 4:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Bates, Cass | 41 min |
| Jun 21, 5:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson | 36 min |
| Jun 21, 5:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 5:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Henry, Johnson | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 6:11 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Daviess, DeKalb, Grundy and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 6:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 48 min |
| Jun 21, 6:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Carroll | 44 min |
| Jun 21, 6:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 39 min |
| Jun 21, 6:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Chariton, Linn | 52 min |
| Jun 21, 7:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Randolph | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 7:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Macon | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 9:51 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson, Lafayette, Ray | 12 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:51 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette, Saline | 12 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:51 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Saline | 12 hr |
| Jun 21, 1:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Atchison | 42 min |
| Jun 21, 2:03 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Atchison | 5 hr |
| Jun 21, 2:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Doniphan | 51 min |
| Jun 21, 3:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Leavenworth | 44 min |
| Jun 21, 3:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Leavenworth | 49 min |
| Jun 21, 4:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Wyandotte | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 9:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison | 39 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 41 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Leavenworth | 48 hr |
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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.