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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 5:40 PM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Riley County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. 6 reports 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
- Jun 13, 2000, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 M | Ogden, KS | Winds to 71 mph broke off an ameteur radio antenna. |
| Jun 13, 5:52 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 M | Westmoreland, KS | |
| Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 M | Olsburg, KS | |
| Jun 13, 6:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Wamego, KS | |
| Jun 13, 6:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Wamego, KS | Three inch tree limbs were downed. |
| Jun 13, 6:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Alma, KS | Large tree limbs were downed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 72 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1552 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
023 WUUS53 KTOP 132240 SVRTOP KSC149-161-197-132315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 540 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL WABAUNSEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHWESTERN POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS SOUTHERN RILEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 538 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KEATS...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF JUNCTION CITY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... MANHATTAN ST. GEORGE WAMEGO LOUISVILLE A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OR A BASEMENT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Washington | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Ottawa | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 34 min |
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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.