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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 ...
The Storm Prediction Center issues convective outlooks (AC), consisting of categorical and probabilistic forecasts describing the general threat of severe convective storms over the contiguous United States for the next six to 192 hours (Day 1 through Day 8). These outlooks are labeled and issued by day, and are issued up to five times per day.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
EF4. 97 mph (156 km/h) 6. Tornado outbreak of April 13–16, 2012 – This was day 2 of aforementioned outbreak; it was only the second high risk to be issued on Day 2 (the day before the event; first Day 2 high risk was for April 7, 2006) and the first/only to date ever issued on the initial (0600Z) Day 2 outlook. [277]
In its forecast discussion Friday morning, the NWS’s Kansas City office said after a round of showers and storms move across the region in the morning, a chance for “strong to severe” storms ...