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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 2, 2026Mercer County, Putnam County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2026, 2:56 PM CDT for Mercer County, Putnam County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 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, 2026, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2026, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Mercer County, MO, Putnam County, MO

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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
Apr 2, 1:43 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 258 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: 116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 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, 12:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 12:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 2, 5:08 AM CDT, 9 hours 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 2, 2:27 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 2, 2:36 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 2, 2:38 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 2, 2:47 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 2, 2:50 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 2, 2:56 PM CDT, 0 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, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Johnson	30 min
Apr 1, 8:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson	70 min
Apr 1, 8:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Cooper	37 min
Apr 1, 8:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Cooper	7 hr
Apr 1, 8:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Bates	37 min
Apr 1, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Henry	34 min
Apr 1, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	41 min
Apr 1, 9:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson	6 hr
Apr 1, 9:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Cass, Jackson, Johnson	5 hr
Apr 1, 9:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Pettis	26 min
Apr 1, 9:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Henry, Johnson, Pettis	4 hr
Apr 1, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	49 min
Apr 1, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Pettis	28 min
Apr 1, 11:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline	6 hr
Apr 1, 11:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Pettis	33 min
Apr 1, 11:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson	3 hr
Apr 1, 11:39 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	41 hr
Apr 2, 12:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Bates	37 min
Apr 2, 12:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Henry	27 min
Apr 2, 12:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Henry	26 min
Apr 2, 1:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Linn, Macon and 2 more	34 hr
Apr 2, 2:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Henry	34 min
Apr 2, 2:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson	33 hr
Apr 2, 3:22 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	EAX	Adair, Chariton, Linn, Macon, Randolph, Schuyler and 1 more	16 hr
Apr 2, 3:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	5 hr
Apr 2, 4:33 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	20 hr
Apr 2, 5:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline	31 hr
Apr 2, 7:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	33 hr
Apr 2, 9:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper	27 hr
Apr 2, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison, Mercer	29 min
Apr 2, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer	29 min
Apr 2, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer, Putnam	18 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.