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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2008, 1:54 PM CDT for Morris County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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 19, 2008, 1:54 PM CDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2008, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Morris County, KS
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 19, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 595 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 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 19, 11:24 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 11:24 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 5:03 AM CDT, 8 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 503 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2008 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-201015- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 503 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL... NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THOUGH IT IS DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE EXACTLY WHERE THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOST LIKELY TO OCCUR. A FEW STORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL DURING THE DAY TODAY. FOR TONIGHT THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONGEAL INTO A CLUSTER. THIS WOULD MAKE STRONG STRAIGHT LINE WINDS MORE LIKELY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO LINGER ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KANSAS DURING THE DAY FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. WOLTERS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 12:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1252 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008 KSZ010-011-023-191815- MARSHALL-NEMAHA-POTTAWATOMIE- 1252 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR SOUTHEAST NEMAHA...SOUTHWEST MARSHALL AND NORTHEAST POTTAWATOMIE COUNTIES... THROUGH 115 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEMAHA...SOUTHWEST MARSHALL AND NORTHEAST POTTAWATOMIE COUNTIES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...STRONG WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. SOME LOCATIONS THAT COULD BE AFFECTED INCLUDE ONAGA...LILLIS...HAVENSVILLE AND EMMETT. STAY ALERT TO THE WEATHER IN CASE A WARNING IS ISSUED. CAVANAUGH
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:31 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 131 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008 KSZ037-191900- MORRIS- 131 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008 THROUGH 200 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN MORRIS COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT COULD BE AFFECTED INCLUDE COUNCIL GROVE LAKE...DUNLAP AND COUNCIL GROVE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 38 min |
| Jun 19, 2:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 4 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 42 min |
| Jun 19, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 44 min |
| Jun 19, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 4:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 113 min |
| Jun 19, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon | 40 min |
| Jun 19, 5:11 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Lyon | 2 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.