A line of storms moved into eastern Kansas bring damaging winds to parts of the Kansas City metro area.
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A line of storms moved into eastern Kansas bring damaging winds to parts of the Kansas City metro area.
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 14, 11:23 PM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1223 AM CDT Sun Jun 15 2014 .DISCUSSION... Issued at 318 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2014 The main concerns with this forecast center around the potential for severe convection this evening and tonight as well as tomorrow. For this evening and overnight, deeper moisture is building over the area as evidenced by the cloud cover building eastward. However, warm advection aloft is keeping the atmosphere capped locally as there is no vertical development to these stable clouds. This cap should hold firm throughout the area this evening and most of tonight until the strong dynamic forcing and cold air aloft associated with a negatively tilting trough lifting through Kansas and Nebraska is able to erode it and push southward any convective complex that forms to our north and west. But as that upper wave passes the area to the north and east, it will take with it most of the upper level support. So as any cluster of storms moves into the area, they should be waning in intensity the further south they travel. Short-range higher resolution models were first to really note this delayed and weakening arrival of convection tonight, but the 12Z synoptic models have come into good agreement with them indicating a similar delayed and weakening southeastward trend. For now, the part of the forecast area most likely to see any severe weather, late tonight, will still be far northwestern Missouri and extreme northeastern Kansas. Strong winds look to be the biggest threat in this area but there could also be large hail. Also, while the threat of severe weather decreases as the storms move south and east, there may still be some strong wind gusts associated with them late tonight and early tomorrow morning. For Sunday, with the upper low now into the Upper Midwest, strong dynamic forcing is lacking and any additional convection will be strongly tied to any outflow or frontal boundary. Instability along and ahead of any boundary looks to be rather strong with several thousand J/kg of CAPE possible. Shear also would be supportive severe convection with 30 to 40 kts of 0-6km bulk shear likely. The main limiting factor looks to be veered wind, and resultant weak convergence along the front through the forecast area. None-the-less, given the strong instability possible and strong enough shear for organized storms, a severe threat remains through the southeastern half of the forecast area as any leftover overnight convection will likely reinvigorate in the heat of the afternoon. For Monday through Friday, the upper-level flow regime will remain southwesterly which will allow for summer-like temperatures to emerge during the first half of the week. Strong warm advection aloft on Monday combined with relatively deep mixing should result in highs approaching 90 degrees. A similar trend is expected for Tuesday and once again temperatures may climb to around 90 degrees. While the GFS may be overdoing dewpoints some, given steady southerly flow and what should be strong evapotranspiration from recent rains and healthier vegetation, we will likely see dewpoints climb into the lower 70s. This will make for very hot and sticky conditions with heat indices around or above 95 degrees. With the warm air aloft, convective chances look slim with no shortwave tracking through area providing any forcing to break through the cap. Things may be slightly cooler on Wednesday as it appears there will be a bit cooler temperatures aloft and slightly lower thicknesses. But upper 80s and continued humidity are expected. The cooler temperatures aloft with similar surface conditions will result in a weaker cap and as a result there could be a few afternoon thunderstorms. For the later half of the week models are in decent agreement deepening a trough to the west and moving another front through the area. The specifics are highly uncertain at this point however so have maintained the chance PoPs in the forecast for the end of the week. && .AVIATION...(For the 06Z TAFS through 06Z Sunday Night) Issued at 1220 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2014 VFR conditions will continue until the approach of a slowly weakening thunderstorm complex to reach terminals between 08-11Z. Could see a temporary window of strong west to northwest winds up to 40 kts with the thunderstorms. Low cigs and iso/sct showers will continue through late-morning before gradually improving to near VFR. Wind speeds will remain gusty until the approach/passage of the front, with directions veering thereafter. && .EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. MO...NONE. && DISCUSSION...CDB AVIATION...Blair
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1245 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2014 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-160545- 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- 1245 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT... ESPECIALLY TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 35. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT... HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IMAGES/FXC/EAX/EM1/EAX-EMBRIEFING1.PDF .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE ON SUNDAY. A FEW STORMS MAY BE STRONG TO SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT... HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IMAGES/FXC/EAX/EM1/EAX-EMBRIEFING1.PDF
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
228 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2014
KSZ025-102-MOZ001-002-011-150815-
ATCHISON MO-ATCHISON KS-DONIPHAN KS-HOLT MO-NODAWAY MO-
228 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR ATCHISON...WESTERN NODAWAY...
HOLT...DONIPHAN AND ATCHISON COUNTIES UNTIL 315 AM CDT...
AT 225 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES WEST OF
ROCKPORT TO POWHATTAN TO HOYT...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
TARKIO...HIGHLAND...MOUND CITY...ATCHISON...TROY...MUSCOTAH...
ROCKPORT...FAIRFAX...EFFINGHAM...CRAIG...WHITE CLOUD...LANCASTER...
DENTON...FOREST CITY...OREGON...SKIDMORE...MAITLAND...BURLINGTON
JUNCTION...WATSON AND PHELPS CITY.
THIS WILL IMPACT
I-29 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 68 AND 123.
THESE STORMS MAY BRIEFLY INTENSIFY...AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV
STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 4059 9576 4058 9504 3978 9501 3959 9505
3956 9511 3951 9506 3942 9508 3942 9558
3965 9557 3966 9534 4001 9532 4004 9542
4012 9540 4024 9548 4031 9566 4048 9570
4054 9566 4052 9576 4058 9578
TIME...MOT...LOC 0727Z 268DEG 41KT 4039 9562 3974 9559
3926 9565
BLAIRThe Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:12 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Three large trees about 20 inches in diameter were blown down.
Several trees were blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, June 2014
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: 528236, 528237.