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Freezing Rain Advisory 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this freezing rain advisory at Dec 7, 2007, 4:00 PM CST for 14 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Dec 8, 2007, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 7, 2007, 4:00 PM CST (22:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 8, 2007, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 9, 2007, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freezing rain advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 6, 4:00 PM CST, 24 hours 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 4:00 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Lyon, Osage | 12 hr |
| Dec 7, 4:00 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | TOP | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Marshall, Nemaha and 3 more | 42 hr |
Nearby
Freezing Rain Advisories in Kansas, 2007Every freezing rain advisory in 2007
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.