Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Topeka, KS

Issued

Aug 23, 2001, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)

Expired

Aug 23, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT

In force

66 min

Issued by

NWS Topeka, KS

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ottawa County, KS

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
724 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 722 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TESCOTT...OR ABOUT 21
  MILES WEST OF SALINA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  TESCOTT
  CULVER
  BENNINGTON

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A BUILDING. DAMAGING
WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL
POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

LAT...LON 3895 9793 3896 9772 3896 9738 3908 9736
          3907 9793

NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 23, 4:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
405 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2001

MAIN FORECAST CONCERN IS HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL TONIGHT AND FRIDAY.

DISCREPANCIES IN MODELS AS TO HOW PRECIPITATION EVENT WILL EVOLVE
OVERNIGHT INTO FRIDAY. OBVIOUSLY WOULD EXPECT TO SEE HEAVY RAINS
ACCOMPANYING UPPER LOW EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN NEBRASKA/NORTHERN KS
OVERNIGHT. HOWEVER ETA INDICATING HEAVIEST RAINS TO BE OVER
SOUTHERN KANSAS WHILE AVN STARTS OUT PRECIP IN SOUTH BUT SHIFTS IT
NORTH TO NORTH CENTRAL/NORTHEAST KS BY 12Z. NGM QPF WAS SOMEWHAT OF
A COMPROMISE OF ETA/AVN...PLACING HEAVY RAINS IN EMP AREA. CURRENT
SURFACE ANALYSIS/SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM
OVERNIGHT CONVECTION FROM NORTH OF CNU TO SOUTH OF EMP TO SOUTH OF
SLN AND ON NORTHWEST INTO CONVECTION OVER NORTHWEST KS. MSAS SHOWS
RELATIVELY STABLE AIR OVER NORTHEAST KS WITH INSTABILITY AXIS AND
CONVERGENCE ALONG BOUNDARY. TCU NOTED ALONG BOUNDARY ON LATEST VIS
WITH RADARS SHOWING A FEW ECHOES DEVELOPING ALONG BOUNDARY. THUS
BELIEVE HEAVIEST RAIN POTENTIAL WILL BE NEAR BOUNDARY OVER SOUTHWEST
HALF CWA OVERNIGHT WITH NORTHEAST KS HAVING LEAST CHANCES OF HEAVY
RAINS. GOING WITH LIKELY POPS OVER ENTIRE CWA.

FOR FRIDAY...WILL CONTINUE WITH LIKELY POPS FOR ENTIRE AREA AS UPPER
LOW MOVES EAST ALONG KS/NEBRASKA BORDER THROUGH CWA. WILL ALSO KEEP
MENTION OF HEAVY RAINS IN NORTHERN HALF OF CWA WHERE 850 MB
TROUGH/LOW WILL RESIDE. WILL CUT BACK ON TEMPERATURES...ESPECIALLY
NORTHERN PART OF CWA...DUE TO CLOUDS AND LIKELY PRECIPITATION.

FOR FRIDAY NIGHT...SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS STILL LOOKING LIKELY INTO
THE EVENING HOURS ACROSS EASTERN TWO THIRDS OF CWA...WILL CUT BACK
TO CHANCE POPS FOR WESTERN PORTION.

UPPER TROUGH FINALLY WILL BE EXITING EASTERN PART OF CWA SATURDAY
MORNING...BUT MAY SEE A FEW SHOWERS LINGERING EARLY IN THE DAY OVER
THE NORTHEAST SO KEPT 20 PERCENT POPS THERE. OTHERWISE...GRADUAL
CLEARING FROM THE WEST DURING THE DAY. CUT FWC TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY
TO MID AND UPPER 80S.

.TOP...NONE.

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

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.