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Areal Flood Advisory 21, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this areal flood advisory at Jul 23, 2013, 11:42 AM CDT for Republic County, Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2013, 11:42 AM CDT (16:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2013, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:44 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 2048 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Jul 23, 6:15 AM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 6:15 AM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 4:08 AM CDT, 7 hours 34 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 408 AM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-240915- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 408 AM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL AS THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. ALTHOUGH PERIODIC CHANCES FOR MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK...THURSDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY NIGHT ARE THE MOST PROBABLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 5:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 38 min |
| Jul 23, 11:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 35 min |
| Jul 23, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 26 min |
| Jul 23, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 32 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.