Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2012, 7:20 PM CDT for Marshall County, Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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
- Jun 10, 2012, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2012, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Marshall County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 2323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
745
WUUS53 KTOP 110020
SVRTOP
KSC117-201-110045-
/O.NEW.KTOP.SV.W.0078.120611T0020Z-120611T0045Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
720 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...
NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* AT 716 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HANOVER...
AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS. MINOR TREE
DAMAGE...WITH LIMBS UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER BROKEN.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BREMEN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3985 9659 3983 9694 3994 9698 4001 9681
4000 9661
TIME...MOT...LOC 0020Z 256DEG 20KT 3991 9689
HAIL...0.88IN
WIND...60 MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
930
WWUS53 KTOP 110025
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
725 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012
KSC117-201-110045-
/O.CON.KTOP.SV.W.0078.000000T0000Z-120611T0045Z/
MARSHALL KS-WASHINGTON KS-
725 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN
WASHINGTON AND NORTHWESTERN MARSHALL COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM CDT...
AT 725 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER HANOVER...AND
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS. MINOR TREE
DAMAGE...WITH LIMBS UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER BROKEN.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HANOVER AND BREMEN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3985 9659 3983 9689 3995 9693 4001 9681
4000 9661
TIME...MOT...LOC 0025Z 256DEG 20KT 3992 9685
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60 MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 24 min |
| Jun 10, 7:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 50 min |
| Jun 10, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Marshall, Riley, Washington | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 8:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Marshall | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley, Washington | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 10:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Pottawatomie | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 10:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown | 16 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.