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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 11, 2016, 8:07 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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
- Aug 11, 2016, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2016, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
County Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 3289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1414 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 9.1
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 Aug 11, 6:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 6:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 11, 3:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 311 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2016 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-122015- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 311 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HEAT INDEX VALUES THIS AFTERNOON WILL RANGE FROM 104 TO 114 DEGREES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON...BECOMING WIDESPREAD AND MOVING ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA TONIGHT. THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE FOR A FEW OF THE STRONGEST STORMS TO PRODUCE LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM MARYSVILLE TO HERINGTON. AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT...WITH POTENTIAL FOR SOME LOCATIONS TO RECEIVE MORE THAN 2 INCHES. LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED AGAIN ON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TOP/SITREP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 7:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 40 min |
| Aug 11, 8:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Dickinson | 38 min |
| Aug 11, 8:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Dickinson | 50 min |
| Aug 11, 9:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Geary, Morris | 44 min |
| Aug 11, 11:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Lyon | 46 min |
| Aug 12, 12:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Franklin | 32 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.