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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Topeka, KS

May 6, 2003Osage County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2003, 11:06 AM CDT for Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
May 6, 2003, 11:06 AM CDT (16:06 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2003, 11:45 AM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Osage County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 6, 7:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
May 6, 8:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 2003-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 98 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2003-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -56 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
98 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-211 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1345 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KTOP 061606
SVRTOP
KSC139-061645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1106 AM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OSAGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1145 AM CDT

* AT 1103 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12 MILES WEST OF BURLINGAME TO 7
  MILES WEST OF MELVERN LAKE...OR FROM 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA
  TO 15 MILES EAST OF EMPORIA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  MELVERN LAKE
  OSAGE CITY
  BURLINGAME
  LYNDON
  MELVERN
  CARBONDALE
  POMONA LAKE
  QUENEMO
  OVERBROOK

LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. MOVE INDOORS
NOW...AND AVOID WINDOWS.

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

LAT...LON 3842 9591 3884 9592 3884 9552 3844 9552

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 8:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa46 min
May 6, 9:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Dickinson, Ottawa47 min
May 6, 9:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson66 min
May 6, 9:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary, Riley47 min
May 6, 10:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris45 min
May 6, 10:54 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon21 min
May 6, 11:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson, Shawnee48 min
May 6, 11:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon23 min
May 6, 11:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin65 min
May 6, 11:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage15 min
May 6, 12:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Pottawatomie, Riley41 min
May 6, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.