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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS

October 6, 2016Anderson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Oct 6, 2016, 2:41 AM CDT for Anderson County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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 6, 2016, 2:41 AM CDT (07:41 UTC)
Expired: Oct 6, 2016, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS

County Anderson County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 86 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 841 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 825 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 392 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 7.4

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The text

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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 5, 11:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 11:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 5, 2:51 PM CDT, 11 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 5, 10:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 5, 10:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 5, 11:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 5, 11:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 5, 11:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 6, 2:41 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 5, 10:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Shawnee	36 min
Oct 5, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas	30 min
Oct 5, 11:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas	36 min
Oct 5, 11:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas	28 min
Oct 5, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Shawnee	32 min
Oct 6, 12:43 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Anderson, Franklin	45 hr
Oct 6, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington	37 min
Oct 6, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic, Washington	46 min
Oct 6, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Washington	46 min
Oct 6, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Ottawa	41 min
Oct 6, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic, Washington	25 min
Oct 6, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	49 min
Oct 6, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay, Washington	30 min
Oct 6, 4:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TOP	Dickinson	27 min
Oct 6, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay	26 min
Oct 6, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TOP	Marshall, Washington	27 min
Oct 6, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TOP	Clay, Riley	35 min
Oct 6, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	47 min
Oct 6, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	44 min
Oct 6, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TOP	Dickinson	29 min
Oct 6, 4:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Dickinson	16 min
Oct 6, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall	30 min
Oct 6, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	23 min
Oct 6, 5:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Geary	36 min
Oct 6, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley	48 min
Oct 6, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee	43 min
Oct 6, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson	41 min
Oct 6, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	15 min
Oct 6, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Lyon, Morris, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	48 min
Oct 6, 6:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Nemaha	25 min
Oct 6, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	34 min
Oct 6, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	44 min
Oct 6, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Osage	19 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.