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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Topeka, KS

May 7, 2002

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2002, 1:41 AM CDT. It was in force for 49 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
May 7, 2002, 1:41 AM CDT (06:41 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 2002, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
49 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 May 6, 3:30 PM CDT, 10 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 3:30 PM CDT, 10 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
330 PM CDT MON MAY 6 2002

TIMING AND PLACEMENT OF THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUE TO BE THE MAIN
CONCERN

THUNDERSTORMS FROM LAST NIGHT HAVE GENERATED AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY
WHICH WAS LOCATED IN THE VICINITY OF CNK TO EMP TO JLN. EXPECT THIS
BOUNDARY TO BE THE PRIMARY FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT AGAIN
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH SEVERE WEATHER A THREAT. 18Z
SOUNDING AGAIN SHOWED AN DECENT CAP. AFTER MODIFYING THE SOUNDING
FEEL THAT WITH MID 60 DEWPOINTS AND TEMPS IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S
ACROSS CENTRAL KS...CAP WILL BREAK THERE FIRST. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD
AGAIN FORM INTO AN MCS AND MOVE INTO MO OVERNIGHT. CONSIDERED A
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE EASTERN ZONES. HOWEVER WITH UNCERTAINTY IN
WHERE THE MCS WILL ACTUALLY DEVELOP...DECIDED NOT TO ISSUE ONE.
ALSO...RAINFALL FROM LAST NIGHT AVERAGED A HALF TO THREE QUARTERS
WITH SOME ISOLATED SPOTS GETTING MORE THAN AN INCH. NEVER THE LESS
WILL HAVE TO WATCH RAINFALL CLOSELY TONIGHT.

THE SAME SETUP REMAINS IN PLACE THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS SURFACE LOW
REMAINS OVER SOUTHERN KS...A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS STAYS PUT AND
WEAK DISTURBANCES MOVE OVERHEAD IN THE SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW. KEPT
CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH WEDNESDAY. I SPREAD THE CHANCE FOR
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WHOLE CWA TOMORROW TO ACCOUNT FOR
ANY LEFT OVER PRECIP FROM THE MCS.

COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY EVENING
PUSHING THE MOISTURE TO THE SOUTH. WITH SURFACE RIDGING ACROSS THE
AREA I CONTINUED A DRY FORECAST THURSDAY. I ALSO REMOVED POPS DURING
THE DAY FRIDAY THINKING THAT THE MOISTURE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RETURN
IN TIME. MODELS DO SHOW LEE TROUGH DEEPENING FRIDAY AFTERNOON SO
CONTINUED WITH THE POPS FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AS SOUTHERLY FLOW AND WAA
TO BEGIN AGAIN. WITH THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST...FOLLOWED THE
MORE AMPLIFIED OUTPUTS FROM THE MODELS. THE 00Z MRF WAS KIND OF THE
OUTLYER...HOWEVER THE 12Z AVN HAS COME MORE IN LINE WITH THE ECMWF
AND OTHERS. MODELS SHOW THE LEE TROUGH TO MOVE OUT INTO THE PLAINS
SATURDAY WITH A SHORTWAVE PROPAGATING THROUGH THE CENTRAL ROCKIES
SO I ADDED POPS INTO SATURDAY AND KEPT THEM INTO SUNDAY BEFORE A
PACIFIC FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA LATE SUNDAY OR SUNDAY NIGHT.

.TOP...NONE

WOLTERS

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 6, 10:41 PM CDT, 3 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1041 PM CDT MON MAY 06 2002

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

1035 PM    ARVONIA                   KS   60-70 MPH TSTM GUST
05/06/02   OSAGE
Local storm report, May 6, 10:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1043 PM CDT MON MAY 06 2002

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

1035 PM    2 N ARVONIA               KS    1 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   OSAGE
Local storm report, May 6, 11:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1120 PM CDT MON MAY 06 2002

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

1105 PM    SILKVILLE                 KS    .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   FRANKLIN                        REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER

1118 PM    EUDORA                    KS    .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   DOUGLAS                         REPORTED BY EM.
Local storm report, May 6, 11:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1125 PM CDT MON MAY 06 2002

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

1121 PM    OTTAWA                    KS    65 MPH TSTM GUST
05/06/02   FRANKLIN                        BIG TREES BENDING OVER.

1122 PM    BALDWIN                   KS    .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   DOUGLAS                         REPORTED BY EM.

1122 PM    5 S PLEASANT GROVE        KS    .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   DOUGLAS                         REPORTED BY EM.
Local storm report, May 6, 11:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1142 PM CDT MON MAY 06 2002

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

1117 PM    2 ESE SHARPE              KS    60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/06/02   COFFEY
Local storm report, May 7, 12:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1221 AM CDT TUE MAY 07 2002

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

0544 PM    3 SW ELMO                 KS    .88 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   DICKINSON

0605 PM    HOPE                      KS    .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   DICKINSON

0640 PM    5 WSW JUNCTION CITY       KS    .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   GEARY

0641 PM    3 ENE CHAPMAN             KS    .88 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   DICKINSON                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0645 PM    JUNCTION CITY             KS    1 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   GEARY                           REPORTED BY STORM
                                           SPOTTER.

0646 PM    JUNCTION CITY             KS    .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   GEARY

0745 PM    4 S ELMO                  KS    .88 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   DICKINSON                       PUBLIC REPORTED NICKEL
                                           SIZE HAIL,

0824 PM    3 SW HERINGTON            KS    .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   DICKINSON                       REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

0854 PM    3 N ALMA                  KS    1 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   WABAUNSEE

0948 PM    5 N AMERICUS              KS    60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/06/02   LYON                            REPORTED BY TRAINED
                                           SPOTTER

0950 PM    (TOP)BILLARD ARPT TOPEKA  KS    1 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   SHAWNEE

0957 PM    GRANTVILLE                KS    1 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   JEFFERSON

0957 PM    PERRY                     KS    .88 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   JEFFERSON

1027 PM    2 N DUNLAP                KS    .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   MORRIS

1032 PM    PERRY                     KS    .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   JEFFERSON

1035 PM    ARVONIA                   KS    70 MPH TSTM GUST
05/06/02   OSAGE

1035 PM    2 N ARVONIA               KS    1 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   OSAGE

1105 PM    SILKVILLE                 KS    .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   FRANKLIN                        REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER

1118 PM    EUDORA                    KS    .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   DOUGLAS                         REPORTED BY EM.

1121 PM    OTTAWA                    KS    65 MPH TSTM GUST
05/06/02   FRANKLIN                        BIG TREES BENDING OVER.

1122 PM    BALDWIN                   KS    .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   DOUGLAS                         REPORTED BY EM.

1122 PM    5 S PLEASANT GROVE        KS    .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/02   DOUGLAS                         REPORTED BY EM.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP50 min
May 6, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP46 min
May 6, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP50 min
May 6, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP31 min
May 6, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP62 min
May 6, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP54 min
May 6, 8:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP51 min
May 6, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP51 min
May 6, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP49 min
May 6, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP50 min
May 6, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP59 min
May 6, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP47 min
May 6, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP57 min
May 6, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP14 hr
May 6, 10:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP87 min
May 6, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP25 min
May 7, 2:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP55 min
May 7, 4:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP49 min
May 7, 5:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP41 min
May 7, 7:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP51 min
May 7, 9:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP23 min
May 7, 10:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP40 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.