Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2010
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 2010, 6:56 PM CDT for Jackson County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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 30, 2010, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 2010, 7:14 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Jackson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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 30, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 1661 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1168 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 30, 6:48 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 6:48 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 2:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 204 PM CDT FRI JUL 30 2010 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-311915- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 204 PM CDT FRI JUL 30 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL FLOODING RAINS. THE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA WITH A RISK FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THE RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY MORNING SOUTH OF A COUNCIL GROVE TO OTTAWA LINE. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED MAINLY EAST OF A MARYSVILLE TO EMPORIA LINE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 6:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Cloud | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010
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.