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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Topeka, KS

July 19, 2002

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2002, 4:52 PM CDT. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 19, 2002, 4:52 PM CDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

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 Jul 19, 3:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 3:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
328 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002

HEAT AND HUMIDITY CONTINUE TO BE MAIN CONCERNS OVER THE WEEKEND THEN
PRECIPITATION CHANCES SUNDAY TO TUESDAY AND AT END OF WEEK.

HEAT INDICES HAVE REACHED THE 105 TO 110 DEGREE RANGE THIS
AFTERNOON OVER MUCH OF CWA EXCEPT PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL.  OVERNIGHT
LAST NIGHT HEAT INDICES WERE IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S.  CANT SEE
MUCH CHANGING OVER THE WEEKEND THUS WILL GO WITH A HEAT ADVISORY FOR
ALL OF CWA.  MAY BE BORDER LINE AT NIGHT AND OVER FAR WESTERN
PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL CWA.

IN THE SHORT TERM...CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES REACHED THIS AFTERNOON
AND HAVE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN PORTIONS OF CWA WILL
CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING.  FOR SATURDAY...COULD NOT RULE OUT A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS POPPING UP AGAIN BUT MODELS SHOWING A LITTLE WARMER
MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES...THUS WILL KEEP FORECAST DRY AND LET
OVERNIGHT CREW EVALUATE FURTHER.  LOOKING FOR HIGHS AGAIN FROM UPPER
90S TO AROUND 105 DEGREES...CLOSER TO MET GUID.  SIMILAR THINKING FOR
SUNDAY.

SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY...AVIATION AND ETA AT 60 HOURS SHOWING
SHORTWAVE ENERGY HELPING PUSH SURFACE FRONT SOUTH.  THINK GOING
FORECAST ON TARGET AND LOOKS SOME OF THE BETTER CHANCES FOR MORE
WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION CHANCES ON MONDAY...INTO MONDAY
NIGHT...LINGERING TUESDAY AM.  TEMPS COOLING TO AROUND 90 FOR MONDAY
AND TUESDAY...DEPENDING ON EXTENT OF PRECIP COULD BE EVEN A TAD COOLER.

FOR THE WEDNESDAY INTO FRIDAY PERIOD...FRONT TO THE SOUTH...SOME
RIDGING ALOFT SO A BREAK IN PRECIPITATION CHANCES.  ON THURSDAY
ECMWF SHOWING SHORTWAVE IN NORTHWEST FLOW...WHICH 00Z AVN EXTENDED
CONTINUED TREND INTO FRIDAY.  HAVE THUS PUT IN SOME SLIGHT CHANCES
FOR PRECIP AND WILL LET OTHER SHIFTS REFINE.  THICKINESSS SUPPORT
MEX NUMBERS FOR HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S AND LOWER 90S.

.TOP...HEAT ADVISORY THROUGH SUNDAY FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL...
       NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS.

FRANTZ

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 19, 3:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
337 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002

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

0333 PM    MC LOUTH                  KS    60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/19/02   JEFFERSON

Local storm report, Jul 19, 3:52 PM CDT, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
352 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002

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

0344 PM    OSKALOOSA                 KS    65 MPH TSTM GUST
07/19/02   JEFFERSON                       FOUR TO SIX BRANCHES DOWN

Local storm report, Jul 19, 4:04 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
404 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002

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

0344 PM    OSKALOOSA                 KS    65 MPH TSTM GUST
07/19/02   JEFFERSON                       FOUR TO SIX INCH LIMBS
                                           DOWN

Local storm report, Jul 19, 4:10 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
410 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002

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

0405 PM    WORDEN                    KS    .75 INCH HAIL
07/19/02   DOUGLAS

Local storm report, Jul 19, 4:11 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
411 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002

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

0410 PM    BALDWIN                   KS    .75 INCH HAIL
07/19/02   DOUGLAS

Local storm report, Jul 19, 4:17 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
417 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002

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

0415 PM    BALDWIN                   KS    2.75 INCH HAIL
07/19/02   DOUGLAS                         POWER LINES DOWN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP		50 min
Jul 19, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP		34 min
Jul 19, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP		44 min
Jul 19, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP		50 min
Jul 19, 4:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas	109 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.