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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2009, 9:41 PM CDT for Brown County, Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 9, 2009, 9:41 PM CDT (02:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2009, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Brown County, KS, Nemaha County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
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 Aug 9, 6:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 6:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 3:25 PM CDT, 6 hours 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 325 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 2009 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-102030- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 325 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG AND BEHIND A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND GRADUALLY PUSH EAST...GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70...DURING THE EVENING HOURS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE AS THUNDERSTORMS MAY REPEATEDLY TRACK OVER THE SAME AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM MONDAY INTO MONDAY NIGHT AS THE SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT GRADUALLY MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 9, 6:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 10:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 55 min |
| Aug 10, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Ottawa | 60 min |
| Aug 10, 12:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Lyon, Morris, Riley, Wabaunsee | 52 min |
| Aug 10, 12:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Geary, Lyon, Morris, Osage, Shawnee and 1 more | 54 min |
| Aug 10, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Lyon, Osage and 1 more | 59 min |
| Aug 10, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 45 min |
| Aug 10, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.