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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 3, 2014, 2:25 AM CDT for Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2014, 2:25 AM CDT (07:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2014, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
County Nemaha County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 428 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 427 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 529 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 3, 12:25 AM CDT, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 12:25 AM CDT, 2 hours before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 334 PM CDT WED APR 2 2014 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-032045- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 334 PM CDT WED APR 2 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING...WITH AREAS ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF INTERSTATE 35 AT GREATER RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS. HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE PRIMARY THREAT...ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP NEAR INTERSTATE 70 BY MID EVENING AND LIFT NORTHWARD LATE TONIGHT INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA INTO THURSDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SOME STRONGER STORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS FAR EASTERN KANSAS MID TO LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AS A COLD FRONT TRACKS EASTWARD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING.
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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 12:43 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 24 min |
| Apr 2, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 27 min |
| Apr 2, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 33 min |
| Apr 2, 9:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Dickinson | 21 min |
| Apr 2, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 9:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Geary | 29 min |
| Apr 2, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 63 min |
| Apr 2, 10:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson | 4 hr |
| Apr 2, 10:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Osage | 35 min |
| Apr 2, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 28 min |
| Apr 2, 11:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Pottawatomie | 36 min |
| Apr 2, 11:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Riley | 28 min |
| Apr 2, 11:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Jackson | 34 min |
| Apr 2, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 64 min |
| Apr 2, 11:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 24 min |
| Apr 3, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 12:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 12:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Clay | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 12:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 1:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 1:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Marshall | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 2:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Marshall | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 2:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson | 4 hr |
| Apr 3, 7:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Anderson | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Anderson | 6 hr |
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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.