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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Topeka, KS

April 14, 2001Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2001, 6:44 PM CDT for Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. 7 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: Apr 14, 2001, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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
Apr 14, 6:47 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Dover, KS
Apr 14, 7:00 PM CDT	Hail 1	Alta Vista, KS
Apr 14, 7:23 PM CDT	Hail 1	Topeka, KS
Apr 14, 7:28 PM CDT	Hail 1	Topeka, KS
Apr 14, 7:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Topeka, KS
Apr 14, 7:32 PM CDT	Hail 1	Topeka, KS
Apr 14, 7:33 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Topeka, 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
Apr 14, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Apr 14, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 29 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: 2266 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KTOP 142344
SVRTOP
KSC177-197-150030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
644 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SHAWNEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
  EAST CENTRAL WABAUNSEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 640 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MAPLE HILL...OR ABOUT 24
  MILES WEST OF TOPEKA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  DOVER
  WILLARD
  SILVER LAKE
  TOPEKA

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

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

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 Apr 14, 4:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 4:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
418 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

SEVERE WEATHER LIMITING DISCUSSION.

STRONG OVERRUNING OF SURFACE BOUNDARY AND UNSTABLE AIR IN PLACE HAS LEAD
TO SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE
70...AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 75 SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON.  MAINLY HAIL BEING
REPORTED.

UPPER WAVE EJECTING ACROSS CWA DURING THE EVENING WITH MODELS
SHOWING LIFT GENERALLY EAST OF CWA BY AROUND MIDNIGHT.  WILL KEEP
THE SCATTERED STORMS GOING UNTIL THAT TIME...GUIDANCE LOWS IN THE
MIDDLE 40S TO LOWER 50S LOOK OK.

SUNDAY...BREAK IN ACTION WITH COOLER AIR SETTLLING ACROSS CWA.  H850
MB WINDS 25 TO 35 KNOTS IN THE AM...WILL GO BREEZY WITH HIGHS 65 TO
70 MOST AREAS.

INCREASING CLOUDS SUNDAY NIGHT.  GOING MORE WITH AVN MODEL.
NORTHERN STREAM BECOMES ACTIVE AND SWEEPS ACROSS CWA MONDAY.  WILL
GO WITH SOME 30 TO 40 POPS FOR NOW AND GIVEN H850 MB TEMPS...MENTION
SOME FLURRIES POSSIBLE IN THE AM OVER THE FAR NORTHERN COUNTIES.
WILL HAVE PRECIP OVER THE NORTHCENTRAL AND FAR NORTHERNN COUNTIES
MAINLY IN THE AM.  FAVORING MORE OF A COMPROMISE ON HIGHS AND LOWS WITH
MAV/FAN.

.TOP.K..NONE

PF

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 14, 6:08 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
608 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

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

0607 PM    HARVEYVILLE               KS    1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   WABAUNSEE

Local storm report, Apr 14, 6:20 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
620 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

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

0545 PM    PAXICO                    KS    WIND DAMAGE
04/14/01   WABAUNSEE                       ROOF BLOWN OFF JUNIOR
                                           HIGH SCHOOL AND POWER
                                           LINES DOWN.

0615 PM    6 N BURLINGAME            KS    1 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   OSAGE

Local storm report, Apr 14, 6:35 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
635 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

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

0622 PM    6 N BURLINGAME            KS    1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   OSAGE

0629 PM    ALMA                      KS    .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   WABAUNSEE

0629 PM    SCRANTON                  KS    1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   OSAGE

0634 PM    PERRY                     KS    1 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   JEFFERSON

Local storm report, Apr 14, 6:37 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
637 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
?
0634 PM    LAWRENCE                  KS    .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   DOUGLAS                         55 MPH WINDS ALSO

Local storm report, Apr 14, 6:43 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
643 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
f
0634 PM    2 E SCRANTON              KS    4.5 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   OSAGE                           GOLF BALL TO SOFTBALL
                                           HAIL

Local storm report, Apr 14, 6:44 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
644 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
W
0640 PM    3 W OVERBROOK             KS    1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01   OSAGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson	38 min
Apr 14, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Riley	33 min
Apr 14, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Ottawa	27 min
Apr 14, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	52 min
Apr 14, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	43 min
Apr 14, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	40 min
Apr 14, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic	34 min
Apr 14, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris	29 min
Apr 14, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	23 min
Apr 14, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee	47 min
Apr 14, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jefferson, Shawnee	48 min
Apr 14, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	48 min
Apr 14, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Riley	35 min
Apr 14, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	47 min
Apr 14, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Osage	51 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.