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Snow Squall Warning 7, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this snow squall warning at Mar 15, 2026, 4:55 PM CDT for 6 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 50 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
- Mar 15, 2026, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2026, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cooper County, MO, Howard County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -798 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1297 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 611 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 832 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 8:53 AM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | EAX | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 29 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:53 PM CDT | Snow Squall Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 67 min |
| Mar 15, 4:21 PM CDT | Snow Squall Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 4:49 PM CDT | Snow Squall Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Lafayette, Linn, Livingston and 2 more | 41 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.