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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2006, 9:12 PM CDT for Cloud County, Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2006, 9:12 PM CDT (02:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2006, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cloud County, KS, Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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 nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 215 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2132 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 26, 7:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 7:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 749 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2006 .DISCUSSION... HAVE UPDATED THE FORECAST TO TRIM BACK POPS FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT. 00Z LAPS ANALYSIS AND KTOP SOUNDING INDICATE A SUBSTANTIAL CAP REMAINS OVER THE FORECAST AREA. WITH THE LOSE OF DAY TIME HEATING...POSSIBILITY FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT SEEMS REMOTE AT BEST. ONLY CHANCE FOR PRECIP TO MOVE INTO THE FORECAST AREA WILL BE ALONG THE KS/NEB STATE LINE. CONVECTIVE CLUSTER ONGOING IN NORTH CENTRAL KS COULD PROPAGATE EAST AS SHOWN BY CORFIDI VECTORS. HAVE MAINTAINED CHANCE POPS FOR THE NORTHERN MOST COUNTIES BECAUSE OF THIS. TEMPS FORECAST LOOKS REASONABLE. SOUTHERLY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO KEEP THE BOUNDARY LAYER MIXED PRETTY WELL. THIS SHOULD HOLD TEMPS UP IN THE UPPER 60S TO AROUND 70. && WOLTERS .PREV DISCUSSION /326 PM CDT FRI MAY 26/... SHORT TERM CONCERNS ARE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL ACROSS THE CWA TONIGHT AND TEMPERATURES THROUGH SATURDAY. LATEST VISIBLE SATELLITE AND METARS/SFC ANALYSIS SHOWING SEVERAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH AND WESTERN KS FROM LAST NIGHTS/THIS MORNING CONVECTION. AS MESO HIGH HAS SHIFTED EASTWARD INTO MO WINDS HAVE COME BACK AROUND TO THE SOUTHEAST ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA. PROFILERS SHOWING 850 FRONT HAS LIFTED NORTH INTO SOUTHERN NE WITH ELEVATED CONVECTION DEVELOPING ALONG AND NORTH OF IT. LATEST WATER VAPOR SHOWING A SHORTWAVE LIFTING NORTHEAST ACROSS CO WITH CONVECTION DEVELOPING AHEAD OF IT IN THE FRONT RANGE. AS LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES THIS EVENING...NORTHERN 2/3 OF THE CWA ARE IN ELEVATED CONVERGENT ZONE THROUGH THE MID TO LATE EVENING HOURS. THIS AREA SHOULD FOCUS FURTHER NORTH LATER IN THE NIGHT...HOWEVER POSSIBLE MCS DEVELOPING WITH HIGH PLAINS CONVECTION COULD CLIP THE NORTHERN CWA MAINLY AFTER MIDNIGHT THROUGH THE LATE NIGHT HOURS AS LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES AND DIFFLUENT THICKNESS PATTERN HOLDS TO THE NORTHWEST...ALTHOUGH BETTER FOCUS AND FORCING WILL BE TO THE NORTH OF THE CWA. WITH THE MIXING AND GRADUAL INCREASE IN DEWPOINTS...WILL KEEP LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S TO AROUND 70. ON SATURDAY...A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LEFTOVER CONVECTION TO THE NORTH BY 12Z...BUT HAVE DECIDED TO KEEP FCST DRY THROUGH THE DAY. WINDS WILL BE STRONG AND GUSTY WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 35 MPH WEST. EXPECT SOME HIGH CLOUDS TO LINGER...BUT PRIMARILY IN THE MORNING. WITH MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES IN THE LATER PORTIONS OF THE DAY WILL HELP TO BOOST HIGHS INTO THE LOW TO MIDDLE 90S ALL AREAS WITH THE WARMEST TEMP OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL. WARM BREEZY AND DRY TREND CONTINUES SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT CONTINUES AHEAD OF WESTERN TROF...WHICH DEEPENS A BIT BEFORE PROGRESSING EASTWARD. SHORTWAVE EJECTS OUT OF THE BASE ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON...AND WITH CIN LESS THAN 100J/KG COULD GET AN ISOLATED STORM. NOT CONFIDENT ENOUGH WITH COVERAGE AND TIMING TO ADD WX BUT HAVE UPPED POPS TO 14 TO TREND UPWARD. WESTERN TROF MAKES SOME PROGRESS MONDAY...AND BRINGS FRONT INTO WESTERN KS LATE MON AFTN. WHILE PREVIOUS SOLUTIONS LIFTED WESTERN WAVE FURTHER NORTH... 06/12Z RUNS ARE MORE CENTERED AROUND A SOLUTION WITH MORE ENERGY DROPPED SOUTHWARD INTO THE WESTERN TROF. AS A RESULT...TROF DRAGS ACROSS THE CENTRAL US AS IT LIFTS NE AND THEN FLATTENS THROUGH WED. THEREFORE HAVE POPS FOR ALL AREAS TUES AND WED AS FRONT SLIDES SOUTH AND TROF MOVES EAST. TUES AFTN AND WED AM ARE BETTER CHANCES FOR PRECIP AS TWO FEATURES ACT IN CONCERT OVER THE FA. SPAGHETTI PLOTS SHOW MOST ENSEMBLE MEMBERS SUPPORT THIS SOLUTION FOR THE LONGWAVE PATTERN...HOWEVER SHOULD NOTE THAT A FEW OUTLIERS DO KEEP THE TROF BACK FARTHER WESTWARD. HAVE TRENDED TOWARD A SLIGHTLY COOLER FORECAST TUES THROUGH THURS. && .TOP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 7:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 43 min |
| May 27, 10:52 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Morris and 4 more | 9 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.