Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 2007, 6:09 AM CDT for Douglas County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2007, 6:09 AM CDT (11:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2007, 6:43 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Douglas County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:12 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 1474 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1236 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KTOP 221109
SVRTOP
KSC045-221200-
/O.NEW.KTOP.SV.W.0013.070322T1109Z-070322T1200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
609 AM CDT THU MAR 22 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 700 AM CDT
* AT 609 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CLINTON LAKE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
LAWRENCE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LAWRENCE...
BALDWIN CITY...
EUDORA...
THIS INCLUDES THE KANSAS TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 194 AND 206.
LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. MOVE INDOORS
NOW...AND AVOID WINDOWS.
STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3897 9516 3897 9510 3896 9510 3897 9503
3874 9505 3876 9538 3900 9548 3900 9543
3903 9528 3904 9516
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KTOP 221125
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
625 AM CDT THU MAR 22 2007
KSC045-221200-
/O.CON.KTOP.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070322T1200Z/
DOUGLAS-
625 AM CDT THU MAR 22 2007
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY...
AT 623 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LAWRENCE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EUDORA.
THIS INCLUDES THE KANSAS TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 198 AND 206.
LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. MOVE INDOORS
NOW...AND AVOID WINDOWS.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3897 9516 3897 9510 3896 9510 3897 9503
3874 9505 3880 9518 3903 9537 3903 9528
3904 9516
$$000
WWUS53 KTOP 221143
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
643 AM CDT THU MAR 22 2007
KSC045-221153-
/O.CAN.KTOP.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070322T1200Z/
DOUGLAS-
643 AM CDT THU MAR 22 2007
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY
HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE.
THIS INCLUDES THE KANSAS TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 198 AND 206.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3897 9516 3897 9510 3896 9510 3897 9503
3874 9505 3880 9518 3903 9537 3903 9528
3904 9516
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 49 min |
| Mar 22, 6:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 40 min |
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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.