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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Topeka, KS

August 17, 2002

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2002, 5:19 AM CDT. It was in force for 41 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: Aug 17, 2002, 5:19 AM CDT (10:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 2002, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 41 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 Aug 17, 3:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 3:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
335 AM CDT SAT AUG 17 2002

APPEARS FRONT OUTRUNNING THUNDERSTORMS BY A CONSIDERABLE MARGIN.
UPPER SUPPORT NON EXISTENT...BUT STILL FEEL A FAIRLY GOOD CHC FOR
TSTMS AS MOISTURE CONVERGES ON FNT AND H7 LIFT MOVES OVER AREA.  STG
ISALLOBARIC PATTERN SHOULD CONTINUE TO GIVE FNT A GOOD PUSH...MUCH
LIKE AVM DEPICTS. WITH FNT STALLING TO OUR SOUTH TONIGHT...TSTMS
SHOULD BE CONFINED TO SERN CWA. WITH FNT SLOWLY LFTG NORTH ON SUNDAY
WILL BRING MENTION OF PCPN BACK TO THE AREA. BEST CHC FOR RAIN
APPEARS SUNDAY NIGHT. FNT IN THE AREA AND GOOD UPPER SUPPORT APPEAR
DRIVING FORCES FOR CONVECTIVE DVLPMT.

LATER PDS MAINLY DRY. EXTENDED HAS PCPN ON THURSDAY...TRANSITION
BACK TO STG NRLY FLOW OCCURS ABT THEN. SO WILL NOT QUIBBLE WITH THAT
ATTM.

.TOP...NONE

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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.