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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS

July 11, 2016Cloud County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 11, 2016, 11:22 PM CDT for Cloud 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
Jul 11, 2016, 11:22 PM CDT (04:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 2016, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS

County Cloud County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 194 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2016-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2533 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2016-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2533 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1388 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
333 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 Jul 11, 6:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 6:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 9:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
957 PM CDT MON JUL 11 2016

KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-130300-
REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-
POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-
WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON-
957 PM CDT MON JUL 11 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SCATTERED STORMS ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA OVERNIGHT.
A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...PRIMARILY ALONG AND NORTH
OF INTERSTATE 70...WITH THE MAIN HAZARDS BEING STRONG WIND GUSTS
AND HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUE INTO THE DAY ON TUESDAY...WITH
REDEVELOPMENT OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY
AFTERNOON AND INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE
WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND AS A FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE
AREA. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

.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, Jul 11, 11:22 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1122 PM CDT MON JUL 11 2016

KSZ008-020-120445-
CLOUD-REPUBLIC-
1122 PM CDT MON JUL 11 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL REPUBLIC AND
NORTHWESTERN CLOUD COUNTIES UNTIL 1145 PM CDT...

AT 1121 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR JAMESTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CONCORDIA...JAMESTOWN AND AURORA.

LAT...LON 3964 9793 3970 9755 3944 9753 3942 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 0421Z 263DEG 19KT 3955 9782

HENNECKE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 11:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPCloud33 min
Jul 12, 12:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Cloud, Washington22 min
Jul 12, 12:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPClay31 min
Jul 12, 1:03 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPCloud27 min
Jul 12, 1:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPPottawatomie30 min
Jul 12, 1:32 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPCloud28 min
Jul 12, 1:42 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPClay33 min
Jul 12, 1:57 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPOttawa33 min
Jul 12, 2:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPPottawatomie28 min
Jul 12, 2:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPClay27 min
Jul 12, 2:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPClay, Ottawa4 hr
Jul 12, 2:58 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPDickinson32 min
Jul 12, 3:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee38 min
Jul 12, 3:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee37 min
Jul 12, 3:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPMorris, Wabaunsee30 min
Jul 12, 4:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPCoffey, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Lyon, Osage and 1 more35 min
Jul 12, 4:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPAnderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin31 min
Jul 12, 5:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPAnderson, Franklin27 min

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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.