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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2009, 5:29 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Jul 3, 2009, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2009, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 Jul 3, 3:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 3:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 3:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 344 PM CDT FRI JUL 3 2009 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-042045- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 344 PM CDT FRI JUL 3 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG A COLD FRONT LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE THIS EVENING OVER FAR NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A FEW LINGERING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY MORNING...THEN MAINLY ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KANSAS IN THE AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 41 min |
| Jul 3, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009
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.