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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 223, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2016, 5:16 PM CDT for Marshall County, Nemaha County, Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2016, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2016, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 24, 3:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 3:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 24, 3:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 357 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2016 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-252100- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 357 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE PRIMARY HAZARDS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ALSO CANNOT RULE OUT THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ISOLATED TORNADO THREAT, PRIMARILY ACROSS FAR EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT FROM THESE STORMS, AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST LOCATIONS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SOME STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. HAIL AROUND AN INCH IN DIAMETER WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE AGAIN THURSDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TOP/SITREP
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 24, 4:50 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
450 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2016
KSZ009-010-242215-
WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-
450 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON AND
NORTHWESTERN MARSHALL COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM CDT...
AT 450 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
WASHINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MARYSVILLE...WASHINGTON...HANOVER...GREENLEAF...BARNES...
MORROWVILLE AND BREMEN.
LAT...LON 4000 9668 3972 9660 3971 9716 3988 9721
4000 9671
TIME...MOT...LOC 2150Z 258DEG 31KT 3981 9710The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 52 min |
| Aug 23, 7:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Cloud | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud | 32 min |
| Aug 23, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud | 49 min |
| Aug 23, 8:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Clay, Cloud | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 30 min |
| Aug 23, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Riley | 64 min |
| Aug 23, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 10:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Riley | 26 min |
| Aug 23, 10:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Riley | 25 min |
| Aug 23, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Pottawatomie | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 4:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TOP | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 6 more | 18 hr |
| Aug 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 25 min |
| Aug 24, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Nemaha | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 6:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Shawnee | 29 min |
| Aug 24, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage, Shawnee | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2016Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016
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.