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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS

June 16, 2016Osage County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2016, 2:30 AM CDT for Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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: Jun 16, 2016, 2:30 AM CDT (07:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2016, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS

County Osage County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 38 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: 759 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Jun 15, 11:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 11:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 10:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 10:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 11:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 11:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 15, 11:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 1:46 AM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:30 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
230 AM CDT THU JUN 16 2016

KSZ038-039-054-055-160815-
WABAUNSEE-OSAGE-LYON-SHAWNEE-
230 AM CDT THU JUN 16 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN WABAUNSEE...SOUTHERN
SHAWNEE...NORTHERN OSAGE AND NORTHEASTERN LYON COUNTIES UNTIL 315 AM
CDT...

AT 229 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG WINDS FROM
DISSIPATING SHOWERS THAT COULD GUST UP TO 50 MPH. IT IS POSSIBLE YOU
MAY HEAR NO THUNDER AND HAVE LITTLE TO NO RAIN WITH THESE STRONG
WINDS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TOPEKA...OSAGE CITY...CARBONDALE...ESKRIDGE...RICHLAND...AUBURN...
OVERBROOK...BURLINGAME...SCRANTON...HARVEYVILLE...ALLEN...ADMIRE...
BERRYTON AND PAULINE.

THIS INCLUDES KANSAS TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 141 AND 176.

LAT...LON 3856 9614 3889 9626 3901 9555 3869 9552
TIME...MOT...LOC 0729Z 160DEG 15KT 3874 9574

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Ottawa	45 min
Jun 15, 7:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Cloud	25 min
Jun 15, 7:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon	31 min
Jun 15, 7:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Washington	32 min
Jun 15, 8:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Washington	24 min
Jun 15, 8:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Shawnee	24 min
Jun 15, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Shawnee	34 min
Jun 15, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	22 min
Jun 15, 9:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Franklin	24 min
Jun 15, 9:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Franklin	45 min
Jun 15, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Geary	28 min
Jun 15, 10:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Geary, Morris	34 min
Jun 15, 11:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Geary, Wabaunsee	25 min
Jun 15, 11:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	22 min
Jun 16, 1:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Osage	44 min
Jun 16, 8:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Osage	36 min
Jun 16, 8:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas	29 min
Jun 16, 9:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Anderson, Franklin, Osage	3 hr
Jun 16, 9:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas	30 min
Jun 16, 9:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	36 min

Nearby

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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.