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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS

April 27, 2014Washington County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 27, 2014, 6:22 AM CDT for Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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 27, 2014, 6:22 AM CDT (11:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 2014, 6:45 AM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS

County Washington County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 528 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -304 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1583 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 512 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

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 27, 3:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 3:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 27, 4:11 AM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
411 AM CDT SUN APR 27 2014

KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-280915-
REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-
POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-
WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON-
411 AM CDT SUN APR 27 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH
THE EARLY MORNING HOURS WITH MAINLY THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL.

A DRYLINE WILL THEN MOVE ACROSS THE AREA IN THE LATE MORNING
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS AND DEVELOP A LINE OF STORMS THAT WILL
PUSH EASTWARD. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE
SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES...
ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL COUNTIES THROUGH
THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT SHOULD END ACROSS
THE AREA BY 6 PM. KEEP UP TO DATE ON THE LATEST FORECASTS
CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL THROUGH THE DAY.

A VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER IS EXPECTED BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON
GENERALLY WEST OF A MARYSVILLE TO BURLINGTON LINE AS DRIER AIR
OVERSPREADS THESE AREAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

A VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER IS AGAIN EXPECTED IN THE AFTERNOON
PRIMARILY TO THE SOUTH OF A MINNEAPOLIS TO EMPORIA LINE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON ACROSS
THE NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL COUNTIES.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 27, 4:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 4:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 5:16 AM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 5:55 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 6:22 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 3:42 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Ottawa and 1 more	15 hr
Apr 27, 4:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Geary, Riley	24 min
Apr 27, 4:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Wabaunsee	28 min
Apr 27, 5:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie	29 min
Apr 27, 5:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Marshall	35 min
Apr 27, 6:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson, Geary	32 min
Apr 27, 7:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Wabaunsee	23 min
Apr 27, 8:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie	36 min
Apr 27, 8:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley	87 min
Apr 27, 8:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie	34 min
Apr 27, 9:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley	3 hr
Apr 27, 9:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon	31 min
Apr 27, 9:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee	40 min
Apr 27, 9:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Coffey	29 min
Apr 27, 10:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson, Franklin, Osage	34 min
Apr 27, 10:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jackson	24 min
Apr 27, 10:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Geary	21 hr
Apr 27, 10:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	30 min
Apr 27, 10:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson	34 min
Apr 27, 11:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Pottawatomie	2 hr

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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.