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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Topeka, KS

April 10, 2005Pottawatomie County, Riley County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 2005, 3:08 PM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Riley County, Kansas. It was in force for 22 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: Apr 10, 2005, 3:08 PM CDT (20:08 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2005, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 10, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -305 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 948 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 315 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KTOP 102008
SVRTOP
KSC149-161-102030-
/O.NEW.KTOP.SV.W.0013.050410T2008Z-050410T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
308 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 308 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7
  MILES SOUTH OF TUTTLE CREEK LAKE...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  MANHATTAN...MOVING NORTH AT 65 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  OLSBURG...

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 3956 9641 3917 9652 3924 9674 3956 9667

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KTOP 102022
SVSTOP
KSC149-161-102030-
/O.CON.KTOP.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050410T2030Z/

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
321 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR 
NORTHWESTERN POTTAWATOMIE AND NORTHEASTERN RILEY COUNTIES...

AT 316 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE 
HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR OLSBURG...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH 
OF MANHATTAN...MOVING NORTH AT 70 MPH.

THE STORM WITH OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL PORTIONS OF THE 
COUNTIES. 

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

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

LAT...LON 3956 9641 3930 9661 3935 9667 3956 9667

$$

000 
WWUS53 KTOP 102030
SVSTOP
KSC149-161-102040-
/O.EXP.KTOP.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050410T2030Z/

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
330 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN POTTAWATOMIE AND 
NORTHEASTERN RILEY COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 330 PM CDT...

AT 330 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE AREA...
THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

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

LAT...LON 3956 9641 3930 9661 3935 9667 3956 9667

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris	22 min
Apr 10, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall	33 min
Apr 10, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	25 min
Apr 10, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley	31 min
Apr 10, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	37 min
Apr 10, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Shawnee	45 min
Apr 10, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	24 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.