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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 409, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 4, 20267 counties in Missouri; Doniphan County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2026, 12:28 AM CDT for 7 counties in Missouri; Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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: Jul 4, 2026, 12:28 AM CDT (05:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2026, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Doniphan County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Platte County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 2813 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.4

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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 Jul 3, 6:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 6:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 5:04 AM CDT, 19 hours 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 11:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 4, 12:26 AM CDT, 2 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
Jul 3, 11:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Holt, Nodaway	27 min
Jul 3, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, DeKalb, Gentry, Holt and 1 more	40 min
Jul 4, 1:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Caldwell, Clinton	25 min
Jul 4, 2:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	27 min
Jul 4, 2:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	33 min
Jul 4, 11:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson	48 min
Jul 4, 12:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass	3 hr
Jul 4, 12:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson, Pettis and 1 more	49 min
Jul 4, 12:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass, Henry, Johnson	3 hr
Jul 4, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Henry, Johnson, Pettis	80 min
Jul 4, 1:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Pettis	3 hr
Jul 4, 3:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	3 hr
Jul 4, 11:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Linn, Miami	64 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.