1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 10, 3:25 PM CST, 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 325 PM CST THU MAR 10 2005 .DISCUSSION... HAVE NO PLANS TO EXTEND CURRENT WIND ADVISORY FOR NW HALF OF CWA. WILL LET IT EXPIRE AT 6 PM. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL REMAIN STRONG BUT UNDER ADVISORY CRITERIA AND GRADUALLY DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST THIS EVENING. PESKY NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE TO FRUSTRATE THE FORECAST(ER) WITH PERIODS OF CLOUDS AND ROLLER COASTER TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE WEEKEND. MOISTURE IS LIMITED SO THE STRONG UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT WILL BE MAINLY USED TO GENERATE CLOUDS AND SPOTTY LIGHT PRECIPITATION. BETTER CHANCE FOR MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION EXPECTED TO REMAIN NORTH OF CWA. VORTICITY MAX AND SHORTWAVE CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH IA AND MO WILL PROVIDE FOR CONSIDERABLE CLOUD COVER AND EARLY EVENING SPRINKLES ACROSS NORTHERN MO. THESE SHOULD DISSIPATE SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. SECONDARY COLD FRONT DROPPING SOUTH THROUGH IA WILL USHER IN COLDER TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHT. ANOTHER STRONG VORTICITY MAX...THIS TIME DROPPING SOUTH FROM ONTARIO...WILL USHER IN ANOTHER COLD FRONT INTO MO TOMORROW AFTERNOON. DECENT 700MB UVV FIELD INTERACTING WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY COULD TRIGGER SOME AFTERNOON SHOWERS ACROSS EASTERN CWA. TEMPERATURES ACROSS NORTHEAST MO SHOULD TOP OUT AROUND 18Z AND THEN FALL IN THE AFTERNOON. ETA PROGGED SOUNDINGS SUGGEST PRECIPITATION COULD BE LIGHT SNOW. MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOW GENEROUS DRY LOWER LEVELS SO ANY PRECIPITATION IN CWA WILL BE QUITE LIGHT AND NOT LIKELY TO MEASURE. SO WILL ONLY GO WITH LOW CHANCE POPS. FAVOR MET MOS TEMPERATURE GUIDANCE TOMORROW. SATURDAY BRINGS ANOTHER SHORTWAVE...IS THERE NO END...BUT THIS TIME IT WILL TRACK FROM THE HIGH PLAINS AS THE HIGH AMPLITUDE PATTERN FLATTENS A BIT AS THE PREVIOUS DAYS SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE EASTERN U.S. EXPECT TO SEE A WARM FRONT WORK ITS WAY EASTWARD ACROSS THE CWA ON SATURDAY WITH WARM AIR ADVECTION CLOUDINESS FORMING AHEAD OF IT. WILL HOLD OFF MENTIONING ANY PRECIPITATION FOR NOW. WARM SECTOR BEHIND WARM FRONT SHOULD ENTER WESTERN AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF CWA. MADE MINOR TWEAKS TO PREVIOUS FORECAST. MJ FOR THE LAST HALF OF THE FORECAST...SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...THE AMPLIFIED PATTERN THAT HAS CONTROLLED THE WEATHER FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS WILL UNDER GO SOME SIGNIFICANT CHANGES AS THE WEST COAST RIDGE REGRESSES INTO THE EASTERN PACIFIC. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR A BROAD TROUGH TO DOMINATE MOST OF THE CONUS NEXT WEEK. MID RANGE MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT CONCERNING THE LARGE SCALE FEATURES OF THIS TROUGH. HOWEVER...THERE IS A BIT OF DISAGREE ON THE DETAILS OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH ALL THE SMALL SHORTWAVES WITHIN THE TROUGH. LATEST GFS HAS BACKED OFF ON THE FORMATION OF A CUTOFF LOW OVER THE GREAT BASIN...INSTEAD TAKING THAT ENERGY AND CHANNELLING IT INTO A PROGRESSIVE WAVE WHICH HELPS CARVE OUT THE CONUS TROUGH. THE ECMWF IS A LITTLE SLOWER WITH THE SAME ENERGY...HOLDING IT BACK ACROSS THE ROCKIES A LITTLE LONGER. EITHER WAY...BOTH MODELS INDICATE TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE A LITTLE BELOW NORMAL AS COLD AIR FILTERS SOUTH...SO TEMPERATURES HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED DOWN ACCORDINGLY. AS FOR THE PRECIPITATION CHANCES FOR TUE/WED OF NEXT WEEK...WITH THE GFS JUMPING ALL OVER THE PLACE WITH THE LAST FEW RUNS...THE ONLY REASON TO KEEP CHANCE (30%) POPS IS BECAUSE OF THE CONSISTENCY OF THE ECMWF. HOWEVER...EVEN WITH THAT IN MIND...THE ECMWF IS ALSO SLOWLY TRENDING FARTHER SOUTH IN ITS INDICATION OF WHERE WARM AIR ADVECTION WOULD FAVOR PRECIPITATION. THEREFORE...HAVE EDGED POPS DOWN...BUT JUST BARELY KEPT THEM IN THE CHANCE CATEGORY FOR CONSISTENCY. CUTTER && .PREV DISCUSSION... 632 AM... MID LEVEL DRY AIR CONTINUES TO WORK INTO THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING VIA WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. THIS WILL THWART THE OCCURRENCE OF ANY ADDITIONAL LIGHT PRECIPITATION...SO HAVE REDUCED POPS TODAY AND REMOVED THE MENTION OF LIGHT RAIN. HAVE ALSO TWEAKED CLOUD COVER GRIDS TO BE MORE OPTIMISTIC REGARDING CLEARING...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE WESTERN CWA. THIS SHOULD FACILITATE THE MIXING/WIND POTENTIAL LATER TODAY. SCHMIT && .PREV DISCUSSION... 338 AM CST THU... THE NEXT SHORTWAVE ON THE REAR FLANK OF THE ONTARIO/QUEBEC POLAR VORTEX...CURRENTLY PLUNGING SOUTH ACROSS NORTH DAKOTA AND MINNESOTA...WILL DIVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST TODAY. THE ASSOCIATED SURFACE FRONT...PRESENTLY LOCATED FROM NORTHERN MINNESOTA SOUTH ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA...WILL PASS ACROSS THE CWA LATE THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL ENSUE THIS AFTERNOON AS POST-WAVE SUBSIDENCE SPREADS IN...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI. IT APPEARS TO BE A SHORT WINDOW OF TIME FOR THE GUSTY WINDS...AS POST-FRONTAL MIXING WILL BE LIMITED TO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. CLOUD COVER WILL ALSO FACTOR IN. HOWEVER...WITH 925-850MB WINDS RANGING FROM 40-45 KNOTS ACROSS THE NORTHWEST...THINK THERE IS A GOOD POTENTIAL TO ACHIEVE WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA FOR AT LEAST A COUPLE OF HOURS. SO...HAVE ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY FOR THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA...WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR. ANOTHER CONCERN WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED SHORTWAVE IS THE CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION TODAY. CONTINUE TO ANTICIPATE THAT NORTH CENTRAL/EASTERN MISSOURI HAS THE BEST OPPORTUNITY FOR LIGHT PRECIPITATION AS WEAK LIFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE WAVE WORKS SOUTHEAST. WILL MAINTAIN LOW CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE EXTREME NORTHEAST CWA. HAVE TWEAKED THE PRECIP TYPE GRIDS TO REFLECT A CHANCE FOR RAIN OR SNOW INITIALLY THIS MORNING...AS CURRENT SURFACE TEMPS AT KIRKSVILLE ARE IN THE MID 20S. THINK THE TEMPERATURES WILL RISE FAIRLY QUICKLY AS THE WINDS INCREASE AND CLOUDS ARRIVE...BUT CAN NOT RULE OUT A FEW SNOW FLAKES INITIALLY. HAVE ALSO ADDED A CHANCE FOR SPRINKLES TO THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST AREA TODAY. HAVE STUCK CLOSE TO THE PROGGED GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES TODAY...EXPECTING AN UPPER 40-UPPER 50 DEGREE RANGE. YET ANOTHER SHORTWAVE WILL DROP SOUTH ON FRIDAY...WITH THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA AGAIN APPEARING THE MOST PROBABLE AREA FOR MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION. TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE NORTHEAST WILL BE ACCORDINGLY COOLER. IT APPEARS THAT A SHARP TEMPERATURE GRADIENT WILL BISECT THE FORECAST AREA ON SATURDAY. BOTH NAM AND GFS SOLUTIONS PROG THE WARM FRONT TO LIFT ROUGHLY ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST HALF OF THE CWA. LOCATIONS SOUTH/WEST OF A ST JOSEPH TO SEDALIA LINE SHOULD REALIZE TEMPERATURES IN THE LOW 50S/60S...WHILE MUCH COOLER READINGS IN THE 40S ARE EXPECTED AT AREAS NORTH/EAST OF THE AFOREMENTIONED LINE. SCHMIT && .EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...WIND ADVISORY FROM NOON THURSDAY UNTIL 6 PM THURSDAY FOR KSZ025...KSZ102<105. MO...WIND ADVISORY FROM NOON THURSDAY UNTIL 6 PM THURSDAY FOR MOZ001<008...MOZ011<016...MOZ020<023...MOZ028<030...MOZ037.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1255 PM CST THU MAR 10 2005 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-111200- THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT VERY STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS...WITH SUSTAINED SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH AND GUSTS FROM 45 TO 50 MPH...WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS MOST OF NORTHERN AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND ADJACENT EASTERN KANSAS. A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LOCATIONS NORTH OF A KANSAS CITY...TO CHILLICOTHE...TO LANCASTER LINE UNTIL 6 PM. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED BETWEEN NOW AND AND 5 PM...WITH LOCATIONS WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR EXPERIENCING THE HIGHEST WINDS. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION...AS STRONG CROSS WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG EAST WEST ROUTES...SUCH AS INTERSTATE 70 AND HIGHWAYS 50... 36...AND 136. THE STRONG WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT (LOWER CASE) HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/EAX OR HTTP://WEATHER.GOV. MJ
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A peak wind gust of 61 mph was measured at Higginsville by the Cooperative Observer. Wind gusts from 40 to 55 mph were common elsewhere across much of west central Missouri.
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