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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS
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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 11:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 33 min |
| Jul 12, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Washington | 22 min |
| Jul 12, 12:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Clay | 31 min |
| Jul 12, 1:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 27 min |
| Jul 12, 1:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Pottawatomie | 30 min |
| Jul 12, 1:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 28 min |
| Jul 12, 1:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Clay | 33 min |
| Jul 12, 1:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Ottawa | 33 min |
| Jul 12, 2:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Pottawatomie | 28 min |
| Jul 12, 2:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Clay | 27 min |
| Jul 12, 2:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Ottawa | 4 hr |
| Jul 12, 2:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Dickinson | 32 min |
| Jul 12, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 38 min |
| Jul 12, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 37 min |
| Jul 12, 3:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris, Wabaunsee | 30 min |
| Jul 12, 4:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Coffey, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Lyon, Osage and 1 more | 35 min |
| Jul 12, 4:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin | 31 min |
| Jul 12, 5:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 27 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.