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Winter Weather Advisory 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 3, 2012, 4:13 AM CST for 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 4, 2012, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 2012, 4:13 AM CST (10:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 4, 2012, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 4, 2012, 3:38 PM CST
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Cloud County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:13 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 1107 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 649 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 4:13 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | TOP | Republic | 32 hr |
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.