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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2006, 6:42 PM CDT for Republic County, Washington 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
- Jun 21, 2006, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2006, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 1044 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1388 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 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
- 0.6
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 Jun 21, 3:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 3:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 306 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2006 .DISCUSSION... OVERNIGHT/EARLY MORNING CONVECTION CONTINUING TO DISSIPATE AND MOVE NORTH INTO NE. AFTERNOON SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS BOUNDARY FROM NW MISSOURI THROUGH SOUTHWEST KANSAS SHOWING VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. TONIGHT AND THURSDAY...GFS AND NAM SIMILAR WITH PROGRESSION OF SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING THROUGH KS TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW MORNING...AND FINALLY PUSHING EAST BY THE LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING HOURS THURSDAY. GREATEST CHANCES FOR PRECIP COME WITH THIS FEATURE AS MCS DEVELOPMENT LOOKS LIKELY...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS AS IT PROGRESSES INTO THE TOP CWA. THE POSSIBILITY STILL EXISTS FOR CONVECTION ALONG THE BOUNDARY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH SURFACE HEATING CAN TAKE PLACE. LATEST VISIBLE IMAGERY SHOWS SOME CLEARING IN CENTRAL KANSAS WHILE NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL REMAIN MOSTLY CLOUDY. LATEST LAPS ANALYSIS DOES SHOW SOME WEAKENING OF THE CAP TAKING PLACE IN CENTRAL KANSAS. PRECIPITATION CHANCES REMAIN HIGH THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON WITH SLOW MOVEMENT OF UPPER FEATURE ALONG WITH NEARLY STATIONARY BOUNDARY. COVERAGE AND SEVERE PROBABILITIES WILL GREATLY DEPEND ON RECOVERY FROM EXPECTANT OVERNIGHT MCS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE CWA THURSDAY NIGHT AS EARLIER MENTIONED SHORTWAVE AND BOUNDARY MOVE THROUGH. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES OF 1.5 TO 2 INCHES OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND 850 DEW POINTS IN THE TEENS WILL LEAD TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AS CELL MOVE ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY THURSDAY NIGHT. WILL MENTION HEAVY RAIN CHANCES IN THE ZONES THURSDAY NIGHT. UPPER SYSTEM WILL DEPART THURSDAY NIGHT AND PUSH THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO THE SOUTH OF THE CWA BY FRIDAY MORNING. WILL LEAVE MENTION OF LOW POPS FRIDAY MORNING WITH ANY DECAYING CONVECTION. LOOKS DRY FOR FRIDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING WITH HIGH PRESSURE SETTLING IN OVER THE CWA. FRIDAY NIGHT ANOTHER MCS MAY DEVELOP OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS AS LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES OVER THE WESTERN PLAINS AND A WAVE MOVES INTO THE DAKOTAS. COULD CATCH SOME OF THIS PRECIPITATION...MAINLY IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES LATE IN THE NIGHT. WILL MAINTAIN LOW POPS FOR NOW BUT LATER SHIFTS MAY WANT TO REEVALUATE IF MODELS KEEP IT FURTHER TO THE EAST AND NORTH OF THE CWA. NORTHWEST FLOW SETTING UP FOR THE WEEKEND. INITIALLY SATURDAY LOOKING DRY WITH RETURN FLOW SETTING UP IN THE AFTERNOON ON BACK SIDE OF THE SURFACE HIGH. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE DIVES SOUTHEAST SATURDAY NIGHT ACROSS THE PLAINS GIVING ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY LOOKING DRY WITH WESTERLIES NEAR THE NEBRASKA BORDER WITH RELATIVELY WEAK UPPER FLOW OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS. TEMPERATURES RELATIVELY NEAR NORMAL WITH HIGHS IN THE MID 80S WITH A GRADUAL WARMUP INTO THE UPPER 80S BY WEDNESDAY. && .TOP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 5:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 537 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2006 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-222245- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 537 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS. THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS WILL EVENTUALLY MOVE INTO PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS LATER THIS EVENING. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA ON THURSDAY. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING...SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL... ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN SATURDAY NIGHT ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NECESSARY TONIGHT. WOLTERS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 5:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Jun 21, 5:53 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
553 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0549 PM HAIL 2 WSW AGENDA 39.70N 97.47W
06/21/2006 M3.00 INCH REPUBLIC KS TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
BYRNELocal storm report, Jun 21, 6:14 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
614 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0611 PM HAIL AGENDA 39.71N 97.43W
06/21/2006 E1.75 INCH REPUBLIC KS TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
BYRNEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 47 min |
| Jun 21, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 39 min |
| Jun 21, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic, Washington | 51 min |
| Jun 21, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.