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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this freeze warning at Oct 28, 2015, 3:03 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 29, 2015, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 28, 2015, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 29, 2015, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2015, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 314 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 819 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 28, 12:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 28, 12:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 3:58 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Lyon | 3 hr |
| Oct 28, 3:58 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | TOP | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 8 more | 11 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.