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The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts. They also issue severe weather warnings, gather weather observations, and ...
National Weather Service - Pleasant Hill/Kansas City, Missouri (office identification code: EAX) is a Weather Forecast Office (WFO) of the National Weather Service, which is responsible for forecasts and the dissemination of weather warnings and advisories for 37 counties in northern and western Missouri and seven counties in extreme eastern Kansas, including the Kansas City and St. Joseph ...
From April 25 to 28, 2024, a very large, deadly and destructive tornado outbreak occurred across the Midwestern, Southern, and High Plains regions of the United States, primarily on April 26 and 27. [3] On April 26, the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) first issued an enhanced risk for the Plains, as a broad upper-trough moved eastwards, with ...
The National Weather Service issued the tornado watch shortly before 3 p.m. for parts of the Kansas City forecast area, including seven counties in Kansas and 36 counties in Missouri.
Severe thunderstorms could produce all types of hazards. St. Joseph and surrounding areas in northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri are at a 5% risk of a tornado, while the Kansas City metro area ...
Get the Kansas City, MO local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... Labor Day Weekend kicks off with severe weather threat across Northeast, mid-Atlantic.
John E. "Jack" Hales Jr. is a retired American meteorologist specializing in severe convective storms and tornadoes. Hales spent most of his nearly 50-year National Weather Service (NWS) career as a national lead severe storms forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, OK, formerly known as the National Severe Storms Forecast Center.
The weather service’s Storm Prediction Center has placed Kansas City under a marginal risk, 5 to 15%, chance of severe weather. The primary risks are quarter-sized hail and wind gusts up to 60 mph.