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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 474, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2026, 5:27 PM CDT for 8 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 48 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
- Aug 19, 2026, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2026, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 819 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
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 Aug 19, 2:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 2:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 36 min |
| Aug 18, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 42 min |
| Aug 18, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 37 min |
| Aug 19, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 45 min |
| Aug 19, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 23 min |
| Aug 19, 1:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 50 min |
| Aug 19, 3:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 4:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Johnson | 31 min |
| Aug 19, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 55 min |
| Aug 19, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt, Nodaway | 66 min |
| Aug 19, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Nodaway | 21 min |
| Aug 19, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan, Holt, Nodaway | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Buchanan, Clinton, DeKalb, Gentry, Nodaway | 49 min |
| Aug 19, 5:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Buchanan, Clinton, Platte | 38 min |
| Aug 19, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Clinton, Daviess, Livingston, Ray | 52 min |
| Aug 19, 6:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Livingston | 32 min |
| Aug 18, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 38 min |
| Aug 19, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 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.