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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Topeka, KS

July 7, 20146 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2014, 10:57 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 33 min. 3 reports 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: Jul 7, 2014, 10:57 PM CDT (03:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2014, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Coffey County, KS, Geary County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 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
Jul 7, 10:59 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 65	W Council Grove, KS
Jul 7, 11:01 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	Nne Burlingame, KS	LARGER TREE LIMBS OF 1-2 INCHES BROKEN OFF TREES. POWER OUT.
Jul 7, 11:32 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Lebo, KS	POWER POLES DOWN IN LEBO. ALSO REPORTED NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES IN BURLINGTON.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 7, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 83 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: 3800 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 17.0

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The text

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

453 
WUUS53 KTOP 080357
SVRTOP
KSC031-061-111-127-139-197-080430-
/O.NEW.KTOP.SV.W.0113.140708T0357Z-140708T0430Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1057 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN COFFEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  GEARY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  LYON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  MORRIS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  OSAGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1053 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM LATIMER TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURLINGAME...AND
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

  IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  COUNCIL GROVE...OSAGE CITY...EMPORIA...SCRANTON...ALLEN...
  BURDICK...BUSHONG...ADMIRE...WILSEY...LYNDON...DUNLAP...READING...
  MELVERN...AMERICUS...MELVERN LAKE...OLIVET...LEBO...BETO JUNCTION
  AND NEOSHO RAPIDS.

THIS INCLUDES THE KANSAS TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 120 AND 161.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 128 AND 161.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 291 AND 301.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE ACROSS. SEEK SHELTER NOW 
INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

&&

LAT...LON 3833 9636 3852 9636 3852 9693 3881 9693
      3882 9689 3887 9689 3887 9693 3910 9696
      3874 9559 3838 9564 3832 9592
TIME...MOT...LOC 0356Z 307DEG 45KT 3869 9683 3869 9587

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa	41 min
Jul 7, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Riley	38 min
Jul 7, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Geary, Riley	24 min
Jul 7, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	28 min
Jul 7, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Republic, Washington	49 min
Jul 7, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	19 min
Jul 7, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown	42 min
Jul 7, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	30 min
Jul 7, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson	44 min
Jul 7, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Marshall, Riley, Washington	40 min
Jul 7, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	38 min
Jul 7, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	36 min
Jul 7, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas, Shawnee	28 min
Jul 7, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	38 min
Jul 7, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	49 min
Jul 7, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee	30 min
Jul 7, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Geary, Riley	29 min
Jul 7, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	28 min
Jul 7, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Lyon, Morris, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	40 min
Jul 7, 10:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Brown, Clay, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall and 4 more	3 hr
Jul 7, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee and 1 more	46 min
Jul 7, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Osage	27 min
Jul 7, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	47 min
Jul 7, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Osage	46 min
Jul 7, 11:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Lyon, Osage, Shawnee and 1 more	113 min
Jul 7, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Coffey, Lyon, Morris, Osage, Wabaunsee	24 min
Jul 7, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage	51 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.