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Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS

November 30, 200710 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this ice storm warning at Nov 30, 2007, 4:00 AM CST for 10 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Dec 1, 2007, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 30, 2007, 4:00 AM CST (10:00 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 1, 2007, 12:00 AM CST
Expired
Dec 1, 2007, 7:47 AM CST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS

Counties Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Washington County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2007-11-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2007-11-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 197 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2384 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
541 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 30, 4:00 AM CSTFreezing Rain AdvisoryTOPDickinson, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Jefferson, Lyon and 5 more25 hr

Nearby

Ice Storm Warnings in Kansas, 2007Every ice storm warning 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.