Severe thunderstorms caused damaging winds, across extreme east central Kansas, during the evening hours of June 15, 2009.
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The episode as NWS EAX wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms caused damaging winds, across extreme east central Kansas, during the evening hours of June 15, 2009.
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 15, 5:21 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
621 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2009
...UPDATED AVIATION DISCUSSION...
.DISCUSSION...
CONCERNS THIS AFTN ON MULTIPLE LVLS...FROM SVR WX POTENTIAL THIS
AFTN...TO ADDITIONAL SVR AND FLASH FLOODING OVERNIGHT. AT THE
SFC...WARM FRONT HAS SURGED WELL NORTH INTO NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS SE
INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN CWA AND FURTHER SE TOWARDS SE MO. INITIAL
CONCERNS THIS AFTN DEAL WITH REMNANT OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM MORNING
MCS WHICH IS STRETCHED JUST WEST OF TOPEKA SE TOWARDS CLINTON.
EXTREME INSTABILITY HAS FORMED ALONG AND SOUTH OF THIS BOUNDARY AS
SFC MOISTURE CONVERGENCE IS MAXIMIZED IN TWO SEPARATE AREAS.
PRIMARY AREA IS JUST SOUTH OF THE CWA WITH A SECONDARY AREA FROM EMPORIA
TO MANHATTAN AND CONCORDIA. 19Z TOP SOUNDING INDICATING THE MAIN
HINDRANCE AT THE MOMENT WITH A CAP LOCATED AROUND 875 MB. THIS BEING
SAID...WERE STILL IN A WAITING PERIOD AS TO A WAVE STRONG ENOUGH TO
PROMOTE INITIATION AND BREAK THROUGH THIS CAP SHOULD HEATING AND
BOUNDARY INTERACTION NOT BE SUFFICIENT. SHOULD STORMS IGNITE...DEEP
LAYER SHEAR SOME 30-50 KNOTS ALONG WITH INSTABILITY SOME 2000-3000
J/KG WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
FOR THIS EVE...KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON PV ANOMALY MOVING THROUGH
COLORADO AT THE MOMENT AND A SECOND WAVE MOVING THROUGH WESTERN
NEBRASKA. THE COMBINATION OF THESE WAVES SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO SPARK
OFF CONVECTION ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE WARM FRONT BY THIS EVENING IN
CENTRAL...WESTERN KANSAS/NEBRASKA ALONG WITH NORTHERN OKLAHOMA.
PARAMETERS AND PATTERN VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ONE
OR MORE FOREWORD PROPAGATING MCS CLUSTERS TONIGHT. WITH THE WARM
FRONT DRAPED FROM NW TO SE NEAR AND THROUGH THE CWA...ANY MCS WHICH
DEVELOPS WOULD MERGE WITH ALREADY ONGOING CONVECTION ALONG THE
NORTHWARD LIFTING FRONT THIS EVENING AND TRAVEL THROUGH THE CWA.
HEAVY RAINFALL PARAMETERS ARE ALL SUGGESTIVE OF EXCESSIVE AND
PERHAPS SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL IN PORTIONS OF THE CWA TONIGHT...WITH
H850-700MB MB MOISTURE TRANSPORT VECTORS FOCUSED IN AREAS ALONG AND
NE OF KANSAS CITY TO SEDALIA WITH FOCUS OF THE LLJ POISED TO FEED
SIGNIFICANT MOISTURE INTO NE KANSAS AND NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI.
GIVEN ALREADY PRIMED SOIL CONDITIONS FROM THE BROAD 1-2 INCHES OF
RAIN OVER NORTHERN MISSOURI OVERNIGHT...FEEL THAT ANY ADDITIONAL
RAIN TONIGHT WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING AND PERHAPS SIGNIFICANT
RIVER AND STREAM FLOODING. ALSO...THIS MORNINGS RAIN HAS KNOCKED 1
AND 3 HR FFG GUIDANCE MUCH LOWER WITH AVERAGE VALUES ONLY BETWEEN ONE
HALF INCH AND THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH. THUS HAVE ISSUED A FFA FOR
THE ENTIRE FCST AREA THROUGH NOON ON TUESDAY.
OTHER CONCERN FOR THE OVERNIGHT HORUS WILL BE WITH A SVR THREAT.
FORWARD PROPAGATING MCS WILL BE ENTERING THE CWA WELL AFTER DARK
TONIGHT DURING A PERIOD OF STABILIZING SFC CONDITIONS. ATTM...THE HIGHEST
SVR THREAT WOULD LIKELY BE LOCATED TO THE WEST OF THE CWA...HOWEVER
WOULD NOT DISCOUNT THE POSSIBILITIES OF LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WINDS
IN AREAS MAINLY ALONG AND SE OF A LINE FROM MARYVILLE TO SEDALIA
WHERE MCS HAS THE HIGHEST POTENTIAL TO REMAIN ROOTED IN THE BOUNDARY
LAYER.
BY TUESDAY MORNING CLUSTERS OF CONVECTION SHOULD BE EXITING THE CWA
TO THE WEST...LIKELY SENDING NUMEROUS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THROUGH
THE CWA AND LOWER MO RIVER VALLEY. ONCE AGAIN...INSTABILITY PROGS
SUGGESTING EXTREME INSTABILITY TO DEVELOP BY TUESDAY AFTN WITH
ADEQUATE SHEAR ALOFT. HOWEVER...ABSENT OF ANY STRONG MID-LVL WAVE
AND WITH MID-LVL RIDGING TRYING TO BECOME ESTABLISHED...WILL NEED
TO MONITOR ALL BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS AS SFC MOISTURE REMAINS
ELEVATED AND EML WILL BE SLOW TO MOVE NE. DESPITE LITTLE TO NO QPF
INDICATED BY OPERATIONAL MODELS...WILL CONTINUE TO ADVERTISE LOW CHC
POPS TUE AFTN WITH SLIGHT CHC POPS IN THE EVE.
WE SHOULD FINALLY DRY OUT BY WEDNESDAY AS MID-LVL RIDGING BUILDS
IN. HOWEVER...WELL GO RIGHT INTO THE FURNACE AS STRONG LOW-LVL WAA
SHOULD PUSH READINGS ABOVE NORMAL. AM A LITTLE HESITANT TO GO TOO
EXTREME WITH TEMPS IN THE LOW 90S...AS SATURATED SOILS AND DEW
POINTS IN THE UPR 60S WILL COUNTERACT HEATING TO SOME DEGREE.
DUX
MEDIUM RANGE (THU-MON)...
EXTENDED PERIOD BEGINS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE
TO THE SOUTH WITH AN APPROACHING SHORTWAVE DIVING SOUTH AND EAST OUT
OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ON THURSDAY. LOOK FOR THIS WAVE TO BREAK
DOWN THE RIDGE AND EFFECT THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY.
ECMWF AND GFS IN GOOD AGREEMENT AS TO THE PLACEMENT/TIMING OF THIS
WAVE AS IT INFLUENCES THE REGION.
UPPER WAVE AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO APPROACH THE
NORTHWEST CORNER OF CWA LATE THURSDAY EVENING. CURRENT MODEL OUTLOOK
DEPICTS THE POSSIBILITY FOR ORGANIZED CONVECTION WITH SUFFICIENT
DEEP LAYER SHEAR AND ELEVATED INSTABILITY OUT AHEAD OF THE FRONT.
WENT AHEAD AND INCREASED POPS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHERN MO WITH
THIS SYSTEM. THE FRONT WILL HAVE EXITED THE REGION TO THE SOUTHEAST
BY FRIDAY EVENING. THIS LATE WEEK SYSTEM WILL ASSIST IN BRINGING
TEMPERATURES BACK TO NEAR SEASONAL LEVELS ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
UPPER RIDGE BUILDS BACK INTO THE REGION SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY.
ONLY OTHER CHANGE TO THE FORECAST CAME TOWARDS THE END OF THE PERIOD
AS A MINOR UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE RIDES THE NORTHERN FRINGES OF
THE RIDGE. PER DISCUSSION WITH NEIGHBORING OFFICES...DECIDED TO
HINT AT THE POSSIBILITY FOR ADDITIONAL RAINFALL DURING THE DAY ON
MONDAY WITH THIS DISTURBANCE.
MRD
&&
.AVIATION...
FOR THE 00Z TAFS...CONVECTION IS THE MAIN CONCERN. MAY SEE ISOLATED
CONVECTION THIS EVENING...BUT MAIN THREAT IS AFTER MIDNIGHT AS A
COMPLEX OF STORMS MOVES EAST OUT OF KANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY LAST
AROUND FOUR HOURS WITH LOW CIGS LIKELY TO ONCE AGAIN FOLLOW THE
PASSAGE OF THE STORMS. CIGS TO QUICKLY RISE WITH THE AID OF JUNE
INSOLATION.
DB
&&
.EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL NOON TUESDAY FOR MOZ001-MOZ002-MOZ003-
MOZ004-MOZ005-MOZ011-MOZ012-MOZ013-MOZ014-MOZ020-MOZ021-
MOZ022-MOZ028-MOZ029-MOZ030-MOZ037-MOZ038-MOZ043-MOZ044-
MOZ053-MOZ054.
FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL NOON TUESDAY FOR MOZ006-MOZ007-MOZ008-
MOZ015-MOZ016-MOZ017-MOZ023-MOZ024-MOZ025-MOZ031-MOZ032-
MOZ033-MOZ039-MOZ040-MOZ045-MOZ046.
KS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL NOON TUESDAY FOR KSZ025-KSZ057-KSZ060-
KSZ102-KSZ103-KSZ104-KSZ105.HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1258 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2009 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-161800- 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- 1258 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2009 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 IN THE WAKE OF THIS MORNINGS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY HAS SPREAD ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...FROM CLINTON NORTHWESTWARD TO EMPORIA AND TOPEKA. STRONG INSTABILITY IS DEVELOPING ALONG AND SOUTH OF THIS BOUNDARY...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE FAR SOUTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. SHOULD SEVERE STORMS DEVELOP...THE PRIMARY THREATS WOULD BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ANOTHER LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO AGAIN DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS MONDAY NIGHT...AND MOVE INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT. THESE STORMS WILL TRY TO RIDE SOUTHEAST ALONG A HIGHLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS SOUTH OF A SURFACE WARM FRONT FROM CENTRAL KANSAS INTO SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. SHOULD THESE STORMS HOLD THEIR INTENSITY AS THEY REACH THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. THE AREA WHICH COULD HAVE THE HIGHEST CHANCE OF SEEING SEVERE WEATHER WOULD BE ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF A LINE FROM MARYVILLE TO SEDALIA. THIS COMPLEX WILL BRING AN ADDITIONAL CHANCE FOR HEAVY AND EXCESSIVE RAINFALL ACROSS MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...LEADING TO THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING AND RIVER FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ONGOING ACROSS MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TUESDAY MORNING. WHILE THE SEVERE THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE WANING...HEAVY RAIN MAY CONTINUE THROUGH THE LATE MORNING. SHOULD THIS THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX CLEAR THE AREA EARLY ENOUGH IN THE DAY...STRONG INSTABILITY WILL DEVELOP LEADING TO AN ADDITIONAL THREAT FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE LOCATION OF OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AND OTHER LOCALIZED ENHANCEMENTS WILL BE KEY TO THE POTENTIAL FOR THIS SEVERE WEATHER. THE PRIMARY THREATS FOR THIS ACTIVITY WOULD BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN ADDITIONAL THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL ARRIVE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. DUE TO A RATHER WARM AIRMASS DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THIS FRONT...THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND EXTREME WESTERN MISSOURI...AS WELL AS SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM MARYVILLE TO SEDALIA OVERNIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY ALSO BE NECESSARY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. SPOTTERS ARE URGED TO REPORT HEAVY RAINFALL TOTALS. DUX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
934 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2009
KSZ025-102-160300-
ATCHISON-DONIPHAN-
934 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2009
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR ATCHISON AND SOUTHWESTERN DONIPHAN
COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM CDT...
AT 932 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NETAWAKA TO DENISON
TO MERIDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
MUSCOTAH AROUND 945 PM CDT.
EFFINGHAM AROUND 955 PM CDT.
NORTONVILLE...LANCASTER AND DENTON AROUND 1000 PM CDT.
THE TOWNS OF ARRINGTON...HURON AND FARMINGTON ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF
THESE STORMS.
LAT...LON 3954 9557 3956 9555 3964 9556 3965 9555
3965 9534 3987 9534 3989 9529 3961 9520
3941 9519 3941 9556 3945 9557
21SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 956 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2009 KSZ057-060-105-MOZ037-043-053-160345- BATES-CASS-JACKSON-JOHNSON-LINN-MIAMI- 956 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2009 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR BATES...CASS...JOHNSON...LINN... MIAMI AND SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTIES UNTIL 1045 PM CDT... AT 955 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCRANTON TO WESTPHALIA...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. PEOPLE IN BATES...CASS...JACKSON...JOHNSON...LINN AND MIAMI COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF PARKER...OSAWATOMIE...MOUND CITY...EDGERTON...FONTANA...PAOLA...GARDNER...LA CYGNE...PLEASANTON AND SPRING HILL...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. LAT...LON 3891 9506 3903 9421 3814 9409 3812 9507 DEROCHE
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 74 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:26 UTC.
7 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Major tree damage was reported near the town of Beagle. A police car was blown across the road while parked.
A wind gust to 60 mph was estimated by a trained spotter.
Numerous trees were reported down.
A tree was blown into a residence.
A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph at 151st and Metcalf.
A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
At 115th and Antioch, 2 foot diameter trees were downed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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