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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 30, 2016, 4:37 PM CDT for Lyon 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
- Aug 30, 2016, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2016, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
County Lyon County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 1735 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 875 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 30, 3:57 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 3:57 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 320 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 2016 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-312030- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 320 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT. AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED...WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY IN AREAS WHERE THESE THUNDERSTORMS PERSIST FOR MORE THAN TWO HOURS...AND PARTICULARLY IF THIS OCCURS WHERE HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE PAST TWO DAYS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY...WITH HEAVY RAIN REMAINING POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. .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
Local storm report, Aug 30, 2:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 422 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 2016 KSZ036-037-302145- MORRIS-GEARY- 422 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN MORRIS AND SOUTHEASTERN GEARY COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM CDT... AT 421 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF WHITE CITY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WHITE CITY AND DWIGHT. LAT...LON 3879 9682 3897 9683 3903 9654 3879 9652 TIME...MOT...LOC 2121Z 265DEG 8KT 3889 9675 BD
Special weather statement, Aug 30, 4:37 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 437 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 2016 KSZ054-302200- LYON- 437 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN LYON COUNTY UNTIL 500 PM CDT... AT 436 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR OLPE...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. DIME TO PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... OLPE. THIS INCLUDES KANSAS TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 118 AND 122. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3823 9633 3836 9634 3836 9607 3819 9606 TIME...MOT...LOC 2136Z 263DEG 5KT 3828 9622 GARGAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 2:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Dickinson | 62 min |
| Aug 30, 3:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Geary | 35 min |
| Aug 30, 4:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Geary | 23 min |
| Aug 30, 6:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Clay, Ottawa | 3 hr |
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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.