A small area of early morning thunderstorms on June 3, 2008, produced some damaging wind gusts across portions of west central Missouri.
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A small area of early morning thunderstorms on June 3, 2008, produced some damaging wind gusts across portions of west central Missouri.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 2, 11:40 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1240 AM CDT TUE JUN 3 2008 ...UPDATE AVIATION DISCUSSION... .DISCUSSION... ...MESOSCALE DISCUSSION... /934 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2008/ SOUTHWEST ORIENTED LOW LEVEL JET INCREASING ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. THIS TREND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE LATE THIS EVENING WITH EDGE OF CAP LIKELY SITUATED WHERE CONVECTION IS STARTING TO DEVELOP. STRONG H85 THETA E ADVECTION OCCURRING INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI THIS EVENING ALSO LIKELY HELPING TO KICK OFF CONVECTION THAT HAS STARTED TO DEVELOP. RUC MODEL WOULD SUGGEST THE ADVECTION WOULD MOVE INTO NORTHEAST MISSOURI AFTER MIDNIGHT AS THE LLJ VEERS...THUS TIMEFRAME FOR STRONG CONVECTION IN THE FORECAST AREA WOULD BE MORE LIKELY LATE THIS EVENING THROUGH THE MIDNIGHT HOUR. FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW CONVECTION SHOULD BE ELEVATED ABOVE THE WARM LAYER AT 700 MB...AND LFCS ARE CURRENTLY ABOVE 4000 ACROSS THIS REGION. SO THINKING LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREAT...BUT CAN NOT RULE OUT HIGH WINDS IF THE STORMS CAN TAP SURFACE. FOR WARNING PURPOSES...WOULD EXPECT 50 DBZ CORES OVER 43KFT FOR SEVERE HAIL...WITH VILS IN THE MID TO UPPER 60S. PC && .PREV DISCUSSION... /410 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2008/ LARGE CONVECTIVE COMPLEX HAS MOVED WELL SOUTHEAST OF THE FORECAST AREA...LEAVING LARGELY STABLE CONDITIONS IN ITS WAKE. HOWEVER...AN EXTENDED ARM OF ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...APPARENTLY IN ASSOCIATION WITH A SHEARED VORTICITY WING AND MIDLEVEL FRONTOGENESIS. CONVECTIVELY ENHANCED WARM FRONT SITUATED ALONG THE I-70 CORRIDOR THROUGH WRN KANSAS...ALTHOUGH RECENT SFC OBS INDICATE THIS BOUNDARY BEGINNING TO WASH NORTH ON THE LEADING EDGE OF ADVANCING STRONG CAPPING INVERSION AND EML (EVIDENCED BY H7 +16C AT 12Z ON DDC SOUNDING AND SFC TEMP OF 106F AT GUYMON OKLAHOMA). MODEL GUIDANCE OFFERS LITTLE CONFIDENCE IN SUCH A MESOSCALE FORCED ENVIRONMENT...THOUGH THE HIGHER RESOLUTION RUC AND 18Z NAM-WRF OFFER SOME HOPE FOR AN ACCURATE DEPICTION OF THE WEATHER DURING THE NEXT 12-24 HOURS. NEW THUNDERSTORM DEVELOP ALREADY OCCURRING OVER ERN COLORADO IN AN UPSLOPE REGIME AND ON THE EDGE OF THE STRONGER CAPPING...WHILE CUMULUS DEVELOPMENT STRUGGLING OVER CNTRL KANSAS...APPARENTLY DUE TO MUCH WARMER TEMPERATURES ALOFT. LIKE A BLEND OF THE RUC/NAM OVERNIGHT INDICATING 50-60KT LLJ AXIS FOCUSING INTO A THETA-E RIDGE AND EDGE OF THE STRONG CAPPING NEAR THE CNTRL KANSAS/NEBRASKA BORDER LATER THIS EVENING. CORFIDI VECTORS INDICATE PROPAGATION OF ANY ORGANIZED CONVECTIVE SYSTEM NEARLY DUE EAST INTO NORTHERN MISSOURI OVERNIGHT...BEFORE DIVING SOUTHEAST INTO EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI TOWARDS THE SUNRISE HOUR. STILL CANNOT DISCOUNT ANY ACTIVITY RUNNING A BIT FURTHER SOUTH TOWARDS THE I-70 CORRIDOR...THOUGH ALL MODEL GUIDANCE BASICALLY SHOWS H7 TEMPS RISING TO +12C TO +14C OVERNIGHT...WHICH WOULD LIKELY PRECLUDE A MORE SOUTHWARD PROPAGATION INTO THE THERMAL RIDGE. GIVEN THE LARGE AMOUNT OF UNCERTAINTY...WILL NOT ISSUE ANY FLASH FLOOD WATCH...THOUGH ONCE NEAR TERM TRENDS CAN BE DETERMINED...A WATCH MAY BE NECESSARY (WOULD HEDGE TOWARDS NRN MISSOURI AT THIS TIME). SOME SORT OF CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY WILL LIKELY LIE SOMEWHERE IN OR NEAR THE FORECAST AREA TUESDAY...THOUGH DETERMINING ITS LOCATION OR INFLUENCE NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE AT THIS POINT. WHEREVER SUCH A BOUNDARY LIES WILL BECOME THE FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR ADDITIONAL CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. HOWEVER...MODEL FORECAST OF CONTINUED VERY WARM H7 TEMPERATURES MAY PRECLUDE ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACROSS MOST OF THE WARM SECTOR. WILL INCLUDE LOWER CHANCE POPS OVER MOST OF THE AREA. MODELS HAVE COME INTO MUCH BETTER AGREEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE POSITIONING AND TIMING OF THE WELL ADVERTISED LARGE WRN CONUS TROUGH EJECTING INTO THE CNTRL/NRN PLAINS LATE IN THE WEEK. AS EXPECTED...ECMWF HAS SLOWED THE FORWARD PROGRESSION...WITH THE MAIN EMPHASIS FOCUSED FURTHER NORTH AND WEST...WITH THE FORECAST AREA REMAINING STRONGLY CAPPED...WITH SUMMERLIKE CONDITIONS PREVAILING. HAVE TAILORED HIGHEST POPS THURS NIGHT/FRI MORNING ON THE TAIL END OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY...LIKELY CONVECTIVELY FORCED EASTWARD...BEFORE WASHING OUT UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SIGNIFICANTLY RISING HEIGHTS ALOFT. FOR THE END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD...H5 HEIGHTS IN EXCESS OF 590DM ALONG WITH STRONG CAPPING WILL ALLOW FOR HOT AND DRY WEATHER CONDITIONS...MORE INDICATIVE OF THE END OF JUNE/BEGINNING OF JULY CLIMATOLOGICALLY. 21 && .AVIATION... FOR THE 06Z TAFS...CURRENT CONVECTION ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KANSAS APPEARS TO BE ON TRACK TO STAY SOUTH OF THE KANSAS CITY TAF SITES. FOR NOW WILL ONLY HAVE VICINITY THUNDER IN AND WATCH FOR ANY NORTHWARD BUILDING TRENDS...WHICH MAY OCCUR WITH THE LLJ. STILL THINKING LLJ SHOULD AID IN THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATE TONIGHT IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA ONCE CURRENT COMPLEX MOVES OUT OF KANSAS. WILL KEEP A TEMPO GROUP FOR THUNDER IN THE KSTJ SITE WITH THE ANTICIPATION IF SOMETHING DOES DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA IT WOULD SPREAD EAST WITH VEERED LLJ LATE TONIGHT. MAY SEE ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TUESDAY AFTERNOON IN VICINITY OF SURFACE BOUNDARY WHICH SHOULD BE NEAR THE TAF SITES. WILL KEEP A PROB30 GROUP GOING FOR THAT POSSIBILITY. PC && .EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 114 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2008 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-031815- ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER- PUTNAM-SCHUYLER-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR- BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY- RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON-RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD- CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-COOPER-BATES-HENRY- 114 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2008 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 ONGOING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT AREAS SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM PAOLA TO CLINTON WITH THE THREAT OF VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE SAME AREA CAN ALSO EXPECT TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS LEADING TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. DAMAGING WINDS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE WAKE OF THE STORMS...WILL PRODUCE LOCALIZED DAMAGING WINDS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. LOCALIZED WIND GUSTS OF 60 TO 70 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE BEHIND THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR NORTHERN MISSOURI AS STORMS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS NEBRASKA...AND HEAD TOWARDS THE AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ONCE AGAIN TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY LINGERS IN THE AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE ACTIVITY MOVING INTO THE AREA OVERNIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...ALONG WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NECESSARY TODAY ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY OVER PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. 21
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1136 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2008 MOZ008-030500- SCHUYLER- 1136 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR SCHUYLER COUNTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... AT 1132 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LANCASTER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... DOWNING BY 1155 PM CDT. THE TOWN OF GLENWOOD IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH AND SMALL HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. SF
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 109 AM CDT TUE JUN 3 2008 KSZ057-030645- MIAMI- 109 AM CDT TUE JUN 3 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR MIAMI COUNTY UNTIL 145 AM CDT... AT 104 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF RANTOUL...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF OSAWATOMIE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... PAOLA BY 115 AM CDT. LOUISBURG BY 125 AM CDT. THE TOWNS OF HILLSDALE...WAGSTAFF...CHILES AND BUCYRUS ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. SMALL HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. SF
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 18 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:13 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees up to 15 inches in diameter were reported down in Harrisonville.
Tree and power pole were down due to high winds.
Highway 129 was closed in Mendota due to high water.
Several county roads were flooded.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, June 2008
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 116867, 116868, 116869, 116870.