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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Topeka, KS

May 8, 2013Dickinson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2013, 10:10 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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 8, 2013, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2013, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Dickinson County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 8, 10:17 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	6 Ese Abilene, KS	PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL...WIND DRIVEN

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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 720 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

960 
WUUS53 KTOP 090310
SVRTOP
KSC041-090345-
/O.NEW.KTOP.SV.W.0021.130509T0310Z-130509T0345Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1010 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN DICKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 1005 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ABILENE...
  AND MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

  HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

  IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES AND CROPS IS EXPECTED.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ABILENE...ENTERPRISE...TALMAGE AND MOONLIGHT.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 274 AND 285.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3905 9727 3904 9702 3884 9709 3884 9723
TIME...MOT...LOC 0310Z 191DEG 16KT 3889 9718

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH

$$

PHILLIPS

1 follow-up statement

643 
WWUS53 KTOP 090330
SVSTOP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1030 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2013

KSC041-090340-
/O.CAN.KTOP.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-130509T0345Z/
DICKINSON-
1030 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2013

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL DICKINSON COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
 HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS 
THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVES NORTHERN DICKINSON COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3905 9727 3904 9702 3884 9709 3884 9723
TIME...MOT...LOC 0330Z 191DEG 16KT 3898 9716

$$

PHILLIPS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 8:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon	27 min
May 8, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris	34 min
May 8, 8:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Osage	44 min
May 8, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	32 min
May 8, 9:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	28 min
May 8, 9:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Wabaunsee	23 min
May 8, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee	38 min
May 8, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson, Morris	37 min
May 8, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Shawnee	45 min
May 8, 9:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie	25 min
May 8, 10:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie	34 min
May 8, 10:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie	37 min
May 8, 11:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson	23 min
May 8, 11:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown, Marshall, Nemaha	46 min
May 8, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon	47 min
May 9, 12:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	35 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.