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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Topeka, KS

August 3, 1998Geary County, Riley County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1998, 2:32 AM CDT for Geary County, Riley County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 1998, 2:32 AM CDT (07:32 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1998, 3:05 AM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Geary County, KS, Riley County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 3, 2:40 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Ft Riley, KSSeveral large trees and large tree limbs down.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 2, 2:40 PM CDT, 11 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:40 PM CDT, 11 hours 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 3:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWabaunsee25 min
Aug 3, 3:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Osage, Wabaunsee45 min
Aug 3, 2:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage, Shawnee31 min
Aug 3, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage31 min
Aug 3, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage37 min
Aug 3, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJefferson, Shawnee36 min
Aug 3, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.