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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Topeka, KS

June 13, 2001Republic County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Republic County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 8:29 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Munden, KS
Jun 13, 8:32 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Munden, 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
Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 4371 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1290 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.5
Supercell composite: 17.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
815 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 811 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COURTLAND...OR ABOUT 
  19 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.  ANOTHER
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF BELLEVILLE.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  NORWAY
  COURTLAND
  SCANDIA
  BELLEVILLE
  REPUBLIC

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES.

LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER INSIDE A BUILDING.

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

LAT...LON 3999 9792 3964 9792 3966 9769 4000 9750

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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 Jun 13, 3:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
308 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

CHCS FOR PCPN TNGT/TMRW MAIN CONCERN.

APPEARS SFC BNDRY ABT TO COME TO A SLOW CRAWL OVER WRN KS. GOOD
PRESSURE FALLS OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO PRECURSOR OF BIGGER THINGS TO
COME LATER TNGT AND THURSDAY. FOR THE SHORTER TERM...ATTENTION IS
DRAWN ALG SFC BNDRY WCNTRL KS. LATEST RUCII HAS UPPER WAVE MVG INTO
WRN KS...AND THE TAIL END OF THIS APPARENTLY REASON FOR SOME MID LVL
COOLING NEAR WRN CWA THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...THIS WAVE LIFTS OUT TO
THE NORTHEAST...DRAWING SFC BNDRY NORTHWEST...AND NOTHING OF NOTE
UNTIL LATER TONIGHT AS MAIN UPPER SYSTEM GETS CLOSER. BOTTOM
LINE...UNLESS SOMETHING FIRES THIS EVENING CLOSE TO WRN CWA...MAY
HAVE TO AWAIT STGR DYNAMICS OF WRN SYSTEM FOR CONVECTIVE INITIATION.
APPEARS MOST ACTION WILL BE EITHER LATE TONIGHT OR THURSDAY. EACH
MODEL RUN HAS BEEN A LITTLE SLOWER WITH PROGRESSION OF WRN SYSTEM.
THUS WOULD SUSPECT AT LEAST THE ERN PART OF CWA TO BE VULNERABLE TO
STG CONVECTION ALONG SFC DRY LINE ON THURSDAY. LITTLE IF ANY
CLOUDINESS EXPECTED BEHIND THIS DRY LINE ON THURSDAY...WITH COOLING
STILL LAGGING BEHIND. SO TEMPS IN D+RYER AIR ON THURSDAY INTO THE 80S
LOOK GOOD. IF LATER MODEL RUNS CONTINUE TO SLOW MOVEMENT OF BNDRY
TMRW...MAY NEED TO ADD SOME EVENING POPS ERN PTN CWA TMRW. FOR NOW
AM GOING DRY. CLEAR SAILING REST OF FCST.

.TOP...NONE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
730 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

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

0728 PM    SCANDIA                   KS    1 INCH HAIL
06/13/01   REPUBLIC

Local storm report, Jun 13, 7:57 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
757 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

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

0755 PM    3 SE REPUBLIC             KS    .75 INCH HAIL
06/13/01   REPUBLIC

Local storm report, Jun 13, 8:06 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
806 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
S
0805 PM    5 NW MUNDEN               KS    .88 INCH HAIL
06/13/01   REPUBLIC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic	25 min
Jun 13, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic	30 min
Jun 13, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Republic	17 min
Jun 13, 8:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Republic	31 min
Jun 14, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic, Washington	31 min
Jun 14, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson	32 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.