Isolated severe thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts across a portion of southeast Kansas.
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The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.
Isolated severe thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts across a portion of southeast Kansas.
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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 14, 4:45 AM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
545 AM CDT Tue Jul 14 2015
...Update to Aviation Discussion...
.SHORT TERM...(Today and Tonight)
Issued at 250 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 2015
A very warm and muggy night was in progress across the Ozarks and
Osage Plains early this Tuesday morning with temperatures in the
upper 70s to lower 80s. The isolated convection that developed
across central Missouri along a weak boundary Monday evening
dissipated before arriving to the Ozarks and another cluster or
storms was ongoing in central Kansas.
Another hot and humid day is in store. The weak boundary will sag
southward into the area later today and tonight in response to the
shortwave trough tracking into the northeastern U.S. Meanwhile the
upper ridge will hold strong over our region and even begin to
expand northward.
Expect afternoon high temperatures will be quite similar to the
past couple of days with readings in the lower to middle 90s.
Surface dewpoints will again range in the lower to middle 70s.
Dewpoints could a bit higher into the upper 70s at some locations today
as result of moisture pooling ahead and along the sagging
boundary.
Forecast heat indicies will climb into the 101 to 109 range area
wide with the highest readings across the Osage Plains from
southeastern Kansas into west central Missouri. Heat index values
will be a bit lower across the eastern Ozarks.
With heat index values forecast to approach or reach 105 on
consecutive days the Heat Advisory will be expanded across the
remainder of the Missouri Ozarks for today.
Intense surface heating will result in strong instability today.
However the lack of forcing and warm mid level temperatures will
be an inhibiting factor for convective development. However with
that said an isolated storm cannot be ruled out mainly across
central Missouri.
The weak boundary will sag farther southward into the area
tonight. We will have to monitor the potential for some convective
development tonight along the boundary but that prospect looks low
at this time due to a modest low level jet at best.
.LONG TERM...(Wednesday through Monday)
Issued at 250 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 2015
Seasonably hot and humid weather will be the story heading through
the remainder of the week and into the weekend as our area remains
under the influence of the subtropical ridge.
The weak boundary or axis of surface convergence will be oriented
northwest to southeast across the area Wednesday. This along with
a weak perturbation tracking along the northern periphery of the
ridge may be enough to spark isolated convection Wednesday
afternoon into Wednesday night mainly across the eastern Ozarks.
For the most part the weather looks dry into the weekend outside
of a stray shower or thunderstorm with the next front and
legitimate chance of rain arriving early next week.
&&
.AVIATION...(For the 12Z TAFS through 12Z Wednesday Morning)
Issued at 543 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 2015
For the KSGF, KJLN, and KBBG TAFS: Storms are currently located
across central Kansas early this morning. These storms may hold
together into west central Missouri later this morning, but are
generally expected to remain north of the TAF sites. An isolated
storm affecting a TAF site is not totally out of the questions,
but confidence in this occurring is very low and did not mention
any convection in the TAFS.
Otherwise, mid to high level clouds will spread across the TAF
sites this morning into early this afternoon. Skies will then clear
later this afternoon into this evening. Winds will be out of the
southwest today becoming light and variable overnight.
&&
.SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...HEAT ADVISORY until 9 PM CDT this evening FOR MOZ055>058-066>071-
077>083-088>098-101>106.
KS...HEAT ADVISORY until 9 PM CDT this evening FOR KSZ073-097-101.
&&
SHORT TERM...Foster
LONG TERM...Foster
AVIATION...WiseHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 919 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 2015 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-151430- BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON- ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS- LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON- LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE- TANEY-OZARK-OREGON- 919 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... LIMITED HAIL RISK. ELEVATED THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE RISK. LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. SIGNIFICANT EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK. DISCUSSION... A SMALL CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI THIS MORNING. THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THERE IS SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO HOW FAR EAST THIS CLUSTER OF STORMS WILL MOVE THIS MORNING. ADDITIONAL ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA. AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL RANGE FROM 102 TO 109 DEGREES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. ISOLATED STORMS MAY DEVELOP WEDNESDAY MAINLY ACROSS THE EASTERN OZARKS. THE NEXT CHANCE OF STORMS WILL DEVELOP EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN THE NEXT THREE HOURS FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI. && MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SGF/SITREP(ALL LOWERCASE) THIS PRODUCT IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE) BURCHFIELD
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:21 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were blown down on County Road 125 between Redfield and Mapleton Street.
Several power lines were reported down near Fort Scott.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, July 2015
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: 579618, 579619.