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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Topeka, KS

October 13, 2000Republic County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 2000, 7:06 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 14 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: Oct 13, 2000, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 2000, 7:20 PM CDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Republic County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 13, 7:14 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Narka, KS

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 13, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Oct 13, 2:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 2:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
236 PM CDT FRI OCT 13 2000

...PRECIPITATION CHANCES AND TEMPERATURES MAIN FORECAST
   CHALLENGES NEXT FEW DAYS...

WARM AIR ADVECTION AHEAD OF A SHORTWAVE OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS HAS
KEPT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALIVE THIS AFTERNOON. MOISTURE AXIS
LIES ALONG AND EAST OF A FRONT FROM NEAR HAYS TO WEST OF DODGE
CITY.  SATELLITE SHOWS UPPER TROF OUT WEST WITH VARIOUS VORTICITY
CENTERS ROTATING AROUND IT. FIRST FOR TONIGHT IS A VORT MAX AND JET
STREAK OVER NEW MEXICO THAT IS FORECAST TO MOVE THROUGH AND INCREASE
UVVS TONIGHT TO GENERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE THETA-E
AXIS FROM SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI. FRONTAL
BOUNDARY HAS NOT MOVED MUCH AT ALL AND WITH APPROACH OF SYSTEM WILL
REMAIN IN PLACE TONIGHT. LAPS DATA SHOWS CAPES HAVE INCREASED TO THE
1000 J/KG TO 1500 J/KG ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS FROM NEAR KCNK TO NEAR
KDDC. SUFFICIENT SHEAR WILL BE IN PLACE THIS EVENING...SEE SPC
DISCUSSIONS AND WILL MENTION SOME SVR IN WESTERN ZONES. CWA STILL
LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BE IN THE RIGHT REAR QUAD OF UPPER JET OVERNIGHT
AND WILL KEEP POPS HIGH ALL ZONES.

A STRONGER WAVE OFF THE CALIFORNIA COAST WILL BE THE WX MAKER FOR
LATE SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. NORTHERN END OF FRONT WILL MOVES
EAST INTO THE LAKES TONIGHT...BUT THE SOUTHERN END IS FORECAST BY
MODELS TO REMAIN ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS ON SATURDAY.
ANOTHER WAVE DEPICTED BY MODELS TO MOVE INTO KANSAS SATURDAY WILL
INDUCE CYCLOGENESIS ALONG THE FRONT IN CENTRAL KANSAS. AFTERNOON
HEATING SHOULD HELP TO DESTABILIZE AIRMASS AND WILL LEAVE CHANCE
POPS GOING FOR AFTERNOON. AS MENTIONED ABOVE STRONGEST WAVE MOVES
ACROSS THE AREA SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING. FRONT SLIDES
SOUTHEAST SATURDAY NIGHT AND SHOULD BE IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS SUNDAY
MORNING. WILL GO WITH A DRY FORECAST FOR NORTH CENTRAL COUNTIES AND
HAVE SOME MORNING POPS IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES SUNDAY MORNING.

LOWS TONIGHT IN THE WARM SECTOR WILL REMAIN MILD...GENERALLY IN THE
55 TO 65 DEGREE RANGE...FWC HIGHS ON SAT LOOK GOOD AND WILL GO ABOVE
MOS SATURDAY NIGHT AHEAD OF FRONT...COOLER ON SUNDAY WITH CLOUDS AND
COOLER DRIER AIR FILTERING IN.

.TOP...NONE.

JW

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 13, 6:40 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
640 PM CDT FRI OCT 13 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0640 PM    JAMESTOWN                 KS    .75 INCH HAIL
10/13/00   CLOUD

Local storm report, Oct 13, 6:42 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
642 PM CDT FRI OCT 13 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
d
0640 PM    JAMESTOWN                 KS    .75 INCH HAIL
10/13/00   CLOUD                           SPOTTER REPORTED DIME
                                           SIZE HAIL

Local storm report, Oct 13, 7:02 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
702 PM CDT FRI OCT 13 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
A
0653 PM    2 S BELLEVILLE            KS    1 INCH HAIL
10/13/00   REPUBLIC

0700 PM    BELLEVILLE                KS    .75 INCH HAIL
10/13/00   REPUBLIC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 14, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall	33 min
Oct 14, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall	21 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.