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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Topeka, KS

August 10, 20096 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2009, 12:08 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 52 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 10, 2009, 12:08 PM CDT (17:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2009, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Riley County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:09 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 10, 9:21 AM 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 10, 6:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 6:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 3:48 AM CDT, 8 hours 20 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
348 AM CDT MON AUG 10 2009

KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-110900-
REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-
POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-
WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON-
348 AM CDT MON AUG 10 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT AS A
SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT SAGS SOUTH. ANY STORMS TODAY INTO TONIGHT WILL
BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

A LARGER COMPLEX OF STORMS COULD DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT.
IF THAT COMPLEX OF STORMS DOES DEVELOP IT WOULD PRODUCE HEAVY
RAINS ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 WHERE AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF
ONE OR TWO INCHES COULD OCCUR.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE WILL BE ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS NEXT SATURDAY AND
SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE
NECESSARY LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 10, 11:20 AM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 10, 11:25 AM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 10, 11:31 AM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 10, 11:45 AM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 10, 12:05 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	49 min
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, 12:51 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, 2009 Every 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.