Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2012, 12:02 AM CDT for Morris County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2012, 12:02 AM CDT (05:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2012, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.75 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Morris County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:03 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 12:08 AM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 7 E Alta Vista, KS | |
| May 30, 12:19 AM CDT | HAIL 1 | 5 W Eskridge, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
082 WUUS53 KTOP 300502 SVRTOP KSC127-197-300530- /O.NEW.KTOP.SV.W.0065.120530T0502Z-120530T0530Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1202 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MORRIS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTHERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 1230 AM CDT * AT 1159 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALTA VISTA...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. HAZARD...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS. IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ESKRIDGE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS STORM IS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. && LAT...LON 3905 9607 3876 9599 3876 9646 3888 9650 TIME...MOT...LOC 0501Z 257DEG 29KT 3885 9639 HAIL...1.75IN WIND...<50 MPH $$
1 follow-up statement
762 WWUS53 KTOP 300515 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1215 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012 KSC127-300525- /O.CAN.KTOP.SV.W.0065.000000T0000Z-120530T0530Z/ MORRIS KS- 1215 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MORRIS COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3890 9640 3899 9608 3876 9604 3876 9637 TIME...MOT...LOC 0515Z 260DEG 27KT 3886 9626 $$ KSC197-300530- /O.CON.KTOP.SV.W.0065.000000T0000Z-120530T0530Z/ WABAUNSEE KS- 1215 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY UNTIL 1230 AM CDT... AT 1212 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VOLLAND...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ESKRIDGE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS STORM IS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. && LAT...LON 3890 9640 3899 9608 3876 9604 3876 9637 TIME...MOT...LOC 0515Z 260DEG 27KT 3886 9626 HAIL...1.25IN WIND...<50 MPH $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 10:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Dickinson | 29 min |
| May 29, 10:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Coffey | 32 min |
| May 29, 11:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris | 41 min |
| May 29, 11:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris | 34 min |
| May 29, 11:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris | 31 min |
| May 29, 11:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Franklin | 20 min |
| May 30, 12:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Douglas | 36 min |
| May 30, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage | 29 min |
| May 30, 12:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Osage | 42 min |
| May 30, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 22 min |
| May 30, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee | 23 min |
| May 30, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 45 min |
| May 30, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 22 min |
| May 30, 5:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 36 min |
| May 30, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa | 48 min |
| May 30, 5:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 36 min |
| May 30, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 34 min |
| May 30, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Clay | 22 min |
| May 30, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 48 min |
| May 30, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 32 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.