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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Topeka, KS

June 28, 2003Washington County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2003, 10:21 PM CDT for Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 2003, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2003, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Washington County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:21 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 2883 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1434 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KTOP 290321
SVRTOP
KSC201-290415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1020 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1016 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF PALMER...OR ABOUT 19 MILES
  NORTH OF CLAY CENTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  HADDAM
  LINN
  MORROWVILLE
  WASHINGTON
  GREENLEAF
  WASHINGTON
  BARNES
  HANOVER

LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DAMAGING 
WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. FOR YOUR SAFETY...TAKE COVER 
INSIDE A BUILDING NOW.

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

LAT...LON 3958 9735 3958 9688 3992 9680 3993 9735

$$

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 Jun 28, 1:19 PM CDT, 9 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 1:19 PM CDT, 9 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS
119 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003

PRECIPITATION/HEAVY RAIN CHANCES IN NORTHWEST FLOW MAIN CONCERN INTO
MONDAY...THEN TEMPERATURES.

PRECIPITATION CHANCES LOOK GOOD EVERYWHERE TONIGHT INTO MONDAY AS
UPPER SYSTEMS PARADE SOUTHEAST IN NORTHWEST UPPER FLOW. SOME
AREAS COULD EXPERIENCE LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AS ATMOSPHERE IS MOIST
AS SHOWN BY INITIAL PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES.

CWA DRIES IN NORTHWEST HALF ON MONDAY...AND EVERYWHERE BY MONDAY
NIGHT AS UPPER RIDGING DOMINATES. WILL RETAIN DRY FORECAST THEREAFTER
UNTIL NEXT SATURDAY WHEN ANOTHER SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE WEST
ACCORDING TO THE MRF AND COULD BRING A CHANCE FOR CONVECTION MAINLY
IN THE NORTHERN COUNTIES.

AFTER HIGHS IN THE 80S SUNDAY AND MONDAY...TEMPERATURES START TO
WARM ON TUESDAY UNDER RIDGING INFLUENCE AND BY WEDNESDAY ARE BACK IN
THE 90S. THIS HOLDS THROUGH FRIDAY. BUT MORE CLOUDS AND A CHANCE FOR
THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY AS SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE WEST FORCE
HIGHS BACK INTO THE 80S.

.TOP...NONE

34

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 4:10 PM CDT, 6 hours 11 minutes before

KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-291000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
410 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND
EAST CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHCENTRAL
KANSAS WHERE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA ON SUNDAY. SOME OF THE
STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...AND HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE DURING
THE MORNING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA
SUNDAY NIGHT...AND THEN OVER MAINLY EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ON MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT.

&&

MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE:
   HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/TOP  (ALL LOWER CASE)

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 9:36 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
936 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003

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

0931 PM    10 S CONCORDIA            KS    1 INCH HAIL
06/28/03   CLOUD

Local storm report, Jun 28, 9:46 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
946 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003

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

0946 PM    6 N GLASCO                KS    60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/28/03   CLOUD

Local storm report, Jun 28, 10:11 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1011 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003

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

1010 PM    6 N GLASCO                KS    1 INCH HAIL
06/28/03   CLOUD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	51 min
Jun 28, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	42 min
Jun 28, 10:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud	3 hr
Jun 28, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay	45 min
Jun 28, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic	43 min
Jun 28, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	41 min
Jun 28, 11:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Republic, Washington	3 hr
Jun 28, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ottawa	63 min
Jun 28, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	47 min
Jun 28, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	44 min
Jun 28, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay	48 min
Jun 29, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall	39 min
Jun 29, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	49 min
Jun 29, 2:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris	35 min
Jun 29, 3:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Morris	3 hr

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.