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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Topeka, KS

May 15, 1995Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 10:22 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1995, 10:22 PM CDT (03:22 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1995, 10:55 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Ottawa County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1995-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 20 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1995-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 177 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-819 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
318 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 1:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas, Osage, Shawnee4 hr
May 16, 3:21 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin27 min
May 16, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPShawnee32 min
May 16, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson44 min
May 16, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Morris49 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.