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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Topeka, KS

June 3, 2001Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2001, 11:38 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2001, 11:38 PM CDT (04:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2001, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ottawa County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:40 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 3, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 177 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 2001-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 377 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
377 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
603 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KTOP 040439
SVRTOP

KSC143-040515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1138 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1136 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CULVER...OR ABOUT 20 
MILES WEST OF SALINA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  CULVER
  MINNEAPOLIS
  BENNINGTON

LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THE STORM...MOVE INDOORS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3905 9793 3896 9793 3895 9756 3906 9736
          3933 9739 3925 9767

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 12:03 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBrown, Nemaha6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.