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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS

March 12, 2003Pottawatomie County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2003, 5:29 PM CST for Pottawatomie County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
Mar 12, 2003, 5:29 PM CST (23:29 UTC)
Expired
Mar 12, 2003, 6:15 PM CST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pottawatomie County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 68 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2003-03-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2003-03-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

562 
WUUS53 KTOP 122329
SVRTOP
KSC149-130015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
530 PM CST WED MAR 12 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CST

* AT 526 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES NORTHEAST OF MANHATTAN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  RURAL CENTRAL POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY
  RURAL EASTERN POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY

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 NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER.

LAT...LON 3941 9641 3928 9641 3931 9604 3949 9603

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 12, 5:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPPottawatomie27 min
Mar 12, 5:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJefferson47 min

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.