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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 23, 2016, 5:28 PM CDT for Cloud County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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 23, 2016, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2016, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
County Cloud County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 542 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 23, 3:28 PM CDT, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 3:28 PM CDT, 2 hours before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 23, 3:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 334 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2016 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-242045- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 334 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT WITH THE BEST CHANCES NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. THERE IS ANOTHER SMALL CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS THURSDAY. ON BOTH DAYS THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN COULD LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. .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, Aug 23, 5:28 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 41 min |
| Aug 23, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 50 min |
| Aug 23, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 30 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.