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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | July 1, 1888 |
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| Jurisdiction | Federal Government of the United States |
| Headquarters | 1803 North 7 Highway, Pleasant Hill, Missouri 63072 35°10′55″N 97°26′24″W / 35.182°N 97.440°W |
| Employees | 25 |
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| Parent agency | National Weather Service (operating as a branch of the NWS Central Region Headquarters) |
| Website | www |
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 metropolitan areas. Though, as the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Oklahoma is responsible for issuing severe thunderstorm and tornado watches, the Pleasant Hill/Kansas City WFO only composes outline and status updates for SPC-issued watches affecting any portion of its designated County Warning Area.
The Pleasant Hill Weather Forecast Office – which operates as a branch of the National Weather Service's Central Region Headquarters (CRH) division – manages two Doppler weather radar sites that cover its area of forecasting responsibility, a NEXRAD (WSR-88D) radar, based outside of the Pleasant Hill offices (radar identification code: TLX), serving northeastern Kansas and most of western Missouri; and a Terminal Doppler Weather Radar at Kansas City International Airport (MCI), serving the immediate Kansas City area.[1]
The office is located at 1803 North 7 Highway in the Kansas City suburb of Pleasant Hill, Missouri. NWS Pleasant Hill/Kansas City is currently overseen by Julie Adolphson, who has served as the Meteorologist In Charge of the office since October 2006.[1]
- ^ a b EAX Webmaster. "National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office Pleasant Hill/Kansas City, Missouri". National Weather Service. Retrieved March 25, 2020.