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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS

December 25, 20164 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Dec 25, 2016, 2:18 PM CST for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 27 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: Dec 25, 2016, 2:18 PM CST (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Dec 25, 2016, 2:45 PM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS

Counties Clay County, KS, Geary County, KS, Riley County, KS, Washington County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 404 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 293 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 347 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Dec 24, 5:38 PM CST, 20 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 5:38 PM CST, 20 hours 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 24, 3:42 PM CST, 22 hours 36 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
Dec 25, 3:18 AM CST	Wind Advisory	TOP	Anderson, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas and 14 more	15 hr
Dec 25, 1:04 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Cloud, Ottawa, Republic	26 min
Dec 25, 1:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic	37 min
Dec 25, 1:43 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa, Washington	32 min
Dec 25, 2:47 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Geary, Marshall, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley	28 min
Dec 25, 3:19 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee	26 min
Dec 25, 3:48 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson, Brown, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 5 more	57 min
Dec 25, 4:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson	59 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2016 Every 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.