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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS

March 23, 2016Brown County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Mar 23, 2016, 5:39 PM CDT for Brown County, Kansas. It was in force for 21 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: Mar 23, 2016, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2016, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS

County Brown County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -826 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 562 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 648 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 23, 9:36 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	TOP	Coffey, Dickinson, Geary, Lyon, Morris, Osage and 1 more	9 hr
Mar 23, 9:36 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	TOP	Coffey, Dickinson, Geary, Lyon, Morris, Osage and 1 more	21 hr
Mar 23, 5:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown	10 min
Mar 23, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson	8 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2016 Every special weather statement 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.