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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this winter storm watch at Mar 19, 2006, 4:46 AM CST for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 20, 2006, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2006, 4:46 AM CST (10:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 20, 2006, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2006, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Douglas County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:49 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 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1245 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Mar 19, 3:42 AM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 3:42 AM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 342 AM CST SUN MAR 19 2006 .DISCUSSION... MORE DETAIL DISCUSSION TO FOLLOW AS HAVE BEEN ADJUSTING WATCH/WARNING GRIDS. SHORTWAVE ENERGY EJECTING AHEAD OF MAIN UPPER LOW THIS MORNING AND WILL KEEP CATEGORICAL WORDING FOR THIS MORNING GOING. SOME BRIEF SHUTDOWN IN PRECIP EXPECTED FOR THE AFTERNOON...BUT LATE IN THE DAY COULD REGENERATE AS ANOTHER PIECE OF ENERGY WORKS EAST. FOR TONIGHT INTO MONDAY...MAIN UPPER WAVE EJECTS AND GIVEN THE CONSISTENCY OF MODEL GUIDANCE FOR AT LEAST THE 6 INCH OR MORE AREA OF SNOWFALL...WILL UPGRADE THE GOING WATCH TO A WARNING AND EXTEND UNTIL 12Z TUESDAY MORNING. WILL HAVE A TIER OF COUNTIES TO THE SOUTH OF THIS WARNING IN A WATCH 12Z MONDAY TO 12Z TUESDAY GIVEN PERSISTENT MOISTURE IN FLUX...STRENGTH OF UPPER SYSTEM. && .TOP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...WINTER STORM WATCH ALONG AND NORTH OF A HERINGTON...MANHATTAN TO HOLTON LINE FROM LATE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH UNTIL 6 PM TUESDAY MORNING. WINTER STORM WATCH FROM 6 AM MONDAY UNTIL 6 PM TUESDAY FOR AREAS BETWEEN THE WINTER STORM WARNING LINE...SOUTH TO GENERALLY ALONG A EMPORIA...OSAGE CITY...BALDWIN CITY LINE. && PF
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 18, 4:06 PM CST, 12 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 406 PM CST SAT MAR 18 2006 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-192215- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 406 PM CST SAT MAR 18 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT LIGHT RAIN WILL SPREAD ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS BY LATE EVENING. THE RAIN MAY CHANGE TO OR MIX WITH SNOW OR SLEET AFTER MIDNIGHT NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS FOR LATE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT ALONG AND NORTH OF AN ABILENE...MANHATTAN TO HOLTON LINE. 8 TO 12 INCHES OF SNOWFALL IS POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA BEFORE THE SNOW DIMINISHES MONDAY EVENING. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE LOWER SOUTH OF THE WATCH AREA. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT. STARK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 4:46 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | TOP | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Douglas, Geary and 14 more | 46 hr |
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.