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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Topeka, KS

June 28, 2003Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2003, 11:12 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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, 11:12 PM CDT (04:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2003, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ottawa County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KTOP 290412
SVRTOP
KSC143-290515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1112 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1111 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF ADA...OR ABOUT 26 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  DELPHOS
  ADA
  MINNEAPOLIS

LARGE HAIL...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 3929 9791 3908 9791 3908 9772 3928 9773

$$
PF

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, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	54 min
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, 11:13 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

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