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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Oct 4, 2016, 8:44 AM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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
- Oct 4, 2016, 8:44 AM CDT (13:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2016, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
County Dickinson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 292 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 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 Oct 4, 6:20 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 4, 6:20 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 4, 8:44 AM 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 |
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| Oct 4, 9:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Riley | 32 min |
| Oct 4, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Riley | 45 min |
| Oct 4, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Washington | 39 min |
| Oct 4, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 49 min |
| Oct 4, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 43 min |
| Oct 4, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley, Washington | 27 min |
| Oct 4, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 51 min |
| Oct 4, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 22 min |
| Oct 4, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa | 52 min |
| Oct 4, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa | 34 min |
| Oct 4, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Riley, Washington | 42 min |
| Oct 4, 5:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Ottawa | 35 min |
| Oct 4, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Riley, Washington | 21 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
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.