On a day where most storms were sub-severe, one storm produced some isolated wind damage in Booneville, Missouri.
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On a day where most storms were sub-severe, one storm produced some isolated wind damage in Booneville, 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 Mar 30, 3:11 PM CST, 11 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO 411 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016 .DISCUSSION... Issued at 411 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016 Strong surface low over SE Nebraska has caused warm/moist air advection into the area, with a warm sector characterized by temperatures in the upper 60s to lower 70s and dewpoints in the upper 50s to lower 60s. Cloud cover over the area has prevented robust destabilization; however, there is enough instability present to produce a few thunderstorms this evening, some strong to severe. Expect some modest increase in instability with time as another hour or two of potential heating within breaks in the clouds. With deep layer shear approaching 35 to 45 kts through the night the CAPE/shear relationship should be adequate to get a few strong updrafts, and perhaps some severe storms. As of 20z and 21z winds within the warm sector have veered a bit to around 200 degrees and that should mitigate some of the low level turning, and might even mitigate some of the convergence along the dry line, which is running from SE Nebraska down to central Oklahoma. As the night progresses expect storms that form along the dryline to eventually congeal into a complex, that could include some embedded supercellular activity. Low level shear should increase through the night, which may bring into play some embedded spin-ups within any line segments or QLCS structures. Expect these storms to move into eastern Kansas and western Missouri by 4 pm to 5 pm, and into the KC Metro area by 6 pm to 8 pm. The main hazards with these storms will be wind and hail, although with ample low level shear an isolated brief tornado or two could form. Expect this activity to move out of the area during the overnight hours and into central/eastern Missouri by midnight, if not a little sooner. Upon cold frontal passage a drier air mass will move into the area. Once the main mid level trough moves through the northern and central plains it will have less than favorable atmosphere for precipitation production, thus expect only some light showers across far northern Missouri. Once those showers move out by Thursday and Thursday night, cooler temperatures are in store for the rest of the week and into the early weekend. Temperatures then warm up for the early part of next week, then for the late part of the week another chance for some light rain. && .AVIATION...(For the 18Z TAFS through 18Z Thursday Afternoon) Issued at 1230 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016 Ceilings through the early to mid afternoon hours will continually rise and fall above and below MVFR threshold for the next couple hours before settling into a VFR range for the afternoon. A line of thunderstorms will likely affect each terminal around 00z and should only last for an hour or two. Handled that concern with a 3 or 4 hour TEMPO depending on site, mainly to deal with uncertainty of arrival that far in advance. Will likely be able to refine timing as the event approaches. Expect storms to clear the terminals before 04z, and shortly thereafter a cold front will move through and cause winds to shift from southerly to westerly then eventually northwesterly by early Thursday morning. && .EAX Watches/Warnings/Advisories... KS...None. MO...None. && DISCUSSION...Leighton AVIATION...Leighton
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 459 AM CDT WED MAR 30 2016 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-311000- 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- 459 AM CDT WED MAR 30 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY...WITH GREATEST CONCERN HEADING INTO THE EVENING HOURS. STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. TORNADO THREAT IS LOW FOR MUCH OF THE AREA WITH HIGHEST PROBABILITY ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 132 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:23 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several large trees were blown down in the city of Booneville, Missouri and power outages were reported.
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