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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2013, 4:14 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2013, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2013, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Ottawa County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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 27, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 3630 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 3:38 PM CDT, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:38 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 12:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1230 PM CDT THU JUN 27 2013 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-281730- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 1230 PM CDT THU JUN 27 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A ROUND OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA ALONG AN ADVANCING COLD FRONT. HAIL TO TENNIS BALL SIZE OR LARGER AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 80 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS LATE TODAY. THERE IS ALSO A SMALL POTENTIAL FOR ONE OR TWO TORNADOES. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS IS NEAR AND SOUTHWEST OF A LINE FROM MARYSVILLE TO TOPEKA TO OTTAWA. A HEAT INDEX OF 104 TO 109 DEGREES IS EXPECTED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY IN PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...AND FOR THE ENTIRE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PARTICULARLY NEAR AND WEST OF A LINE FROM MARYSVILLE TO TOPEKA TO OTTAWA.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 11:07 AM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1107 AM CDT THU JUN 27 2013
KSZ012-271645-
BROWN-
1107 AM CDT THU JUN 27 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BROWN COUNTY...
THROUGH 1145 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 35
MPH ACROSS PORTIONS OF BROWN COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
RADAR INDICATED THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL
AND STRONG WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT COULD BE
AFFECTED INCLUDE POWHATTAN...HIAWATHA...WILLIS...ROBINSON AND
EVEREST.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.
&&
LAT...LON 3985 9533 3965 9534 3965 9539 3982 9578
3994 9576
TIME...MOT...LOC 1607Z 295DEG 29KT 3986 9565
BARJENBRUCHLocal storm report, Jun 27, 1:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
407 PM CDT THU JUN 27 2013
KSZ011-012-272130-
BROWN-NEMAHA-
407 PM CDT THU JUN 27 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN NEMAHA AND
NORTHWESTERN BROWN COUNTIES...
THROUGH 430 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 30
MPH ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN NEMAHA AND NORTHWESTERN BROWN
COUNTIES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THIS STORM
IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS OF 40 TO 50
MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT COULD BE AFFECTED INCLUDE SABETHA...
MORRILL...HAMLIN AND FAIRVIEW.
STAY ALERT TO THE WEATHER IN CASE A WARNING IS ISSUED.
&&
LAT...LON 3995 9549 3977 9567 3999 9605 4000 9604
4000 9562
TIME...MOT...LOC 2107Z 303DEG 26KT 4001 9588
BOWENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 10:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown | 32 min |
| Jun 27, 10:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Brown | 114 min |
| Jun 27, 11:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown | 38 min |
| Jun 27, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 43 min |
| Jun 27, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley, Washington | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 4:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown | 23 min |
| Jun 27, 4:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Brown | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 6:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Pottawatomie | 42 min |
| Jun 27, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 24 min |
| Jun 27, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 26 min |
| Jun 27, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 47 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.