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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 2010, 3:53 PM CDT for Cloud County, Republic County, 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
- Sep 13, 2010, 3:53 PM CDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2010, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cloud County, KS, Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 2:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 1168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- 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 Sep 13, 12:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 12:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 13, 11:52 AM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1152 AM CDT MON SEP 13 2010 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-141700- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 1152 AM CDT MON SEP 13 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA...MAINLY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS WHERE A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE AFTER 4 PM. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND NEAR THE NEBRASKA BORDER THIS EVENING AND SPREAD EAST OVERNIGHT. THE MOST LIKELY HAZARDS WILL BE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL PRIMARILY DURING THE EVENING HOURS...ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT CLOSER TO THE THE NEBRASKA BORDER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. WEDNESDAY WILL BRING THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER AS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY SLIPS THROUGH THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT GENERALLY NORTH AND WEST OF THE TURNPIKE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 4:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 38 min |
| Sep 13, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 48 min |
| Sep 13, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 47 min |
| Sep 13, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 50 min |
| Sep 13, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 29 min |
| Sep 13, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 48 min |
| Sep 13, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 44 min |
| Sep 13, 6:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 2 hr |
| Sep 13, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 35 min |
| Sep 13, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall | 23 min |
| Sep 13, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 47 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.