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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS

October 12, 2011Morris County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Oct 12, 2011, 3:48 AM CDT for Morris County, Kansas. It was in force for 12 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 12, 2011, 3:48 AM CDT (08:48 UTC)
Expired: Oct 12, 2011, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 12 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS

County Morris County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2323 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Oct 12, 3:42 AM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 3:42 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 12, 3:47 AM CDT, 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 12, 12:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1258 AM CDT WED OCT 12 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1253 AM     HAIL             6 NE TALMAGE            39.09N 97.18W
10/12/2011  E0.88 INCH       DICKINSON          KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            MOSTLY DIME SIZE HAIL WITH SOME NICKEL SIZE. NEARLY
            COVERED THE GROUND.

&&

BARJENBRUCH

Special weather statement, Oct 12, 1:59 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
159 AM CDT WED OCT 12 2011

KSZ021-120715-
CLAY-
159 AM CDT WED OCT 12 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN CLAY COUNTY...

THROUGH 215 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN CLAY COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL
SIZE HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL
OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CLAY COUNTY.

&&

LAT...LON 3934 9719 3924 9701 3913 9715 3913 9730
      3917 9732
TIME...MOT...LOC 0659Z 223DEG 17KT 3919 9719

Special weather statement, Oct 12, 3:00 AM CDT, 48 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
300 AM CDT WED OCT 12 2011

KSZ036-037-120815-
GEARY-MORRIS-
300 AM CDT WED OCT 12 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL MORRIS AND SOUTH
CENTRAL GEARY COUNTIES...

THROUGH 315 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30
MPH ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN MORRIS AND SOUTHERN GEARY COUNTIES.
RADAR INDICATED THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL
AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WHITE
CITY AND RURAL AREAS OF MORRIS AND GEARY COUNTIES.

&&

LAT...LON 3873 9681 3883 9690 3887 9689 3887 9693
      3899 9678 3880 9664
TIME...MOT...LOC 0759Z 226DEG 25KT 3881 9677

Special weather statement, Oct 12, 3:14 AM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 12, 3:19 AM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 12, 3:48 AM CDT, 0 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
Oct 11, 11:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Ottawa	49 min
Oct 12, 12:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson	18 min
Oct 12, 1:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Clay	16 min
Oct 12, 3:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Geary	15 min
Oct 12, 3:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary	19 min
Oct 12, 3:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon	16 min
Oct 12, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Wabaunsee	35 min
Oct 12, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Osage	30 min
Oct 12, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Osage	30 min
Oct 12, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon	34 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.