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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 2017, 5:11 PM CST for Marshall County, Nemaha County, Pottawatomie County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 2017, 5:11 PM CST (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2017, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 5:13 PM CST | HAIL 1 | 1 W Olsburg, KS | DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL WITH ISOLATED QUARTER SIZE HAIL. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 2:27 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 476 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
430
WUUS53 KTOP 062311
SVRTOP
KSC117-131-149-070000-
/O.NEW.KTOP.SV.W.0002.170306T2311Z-170307T0000Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Topeka KS
511 PM CST MON MAR 6 2017
The National Weather Service in Topeka has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northwestern Pottawatomie County in northeastern Kansas...
Southwestern Nemaha County in northeastern Kansas...
Southeastern Marshall County in northeastern Kansas...
* Until 600 PM CST
* At 511 PM CST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 6 miles northeast of Olsburg to 3 miles north of
Keats, moving northeast at 55 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Westmoreland, Blaine, Olsburg, Wheaton, Tuttle Creek Lake and
Lillis.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
A tornado watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CST for northeastern
Kansas.
LAT...LON 3974 9614 3939 9624 3928 9662 3929 9664
3930 9663 3931 9665 3933 9665 3932 9666
3933 9667 3934 9666 3936 9668 3953 9660
TIME...MOT...LOC 2311Z 234DEG 48KT 3952 9656 3928 9672
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
BB1 follow-up statement
090 WWUS53 KTOP 062344 SVSTOP Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Topeka KS 544 PM CST MON MAR 6 2017 KSC117-062354- /O.CAN.KTOP.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-170307T0000Z/ Marshall- 544 PM CST MON MAR 6 2017 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN MARSHALL COUNTY IS CANCELLED... The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the warned area. Therefore the warning has been cancelled. A tornado watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CST for northeastern Kansas. LAT...LON 3974 9614 3939 9624 3935 9638 3957 9624 TIME...MOT...LOC 2344Z 241DEG 48KT 3964 9603 3940 9619 $$ KSC131-149-070000- /O.CON.KTOP.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-170307T0000Z/ Pottawatomie-Nemaha- 544 PM CST MON MAR 6 2017 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR NORTH CENTRAL POTTAWATOMIE AND SOUTHWESTERN NEMAHA COUNTIES... At 544 PM CST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Corning to 6 miles south of Onaga, moving northeast at 55 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. These severe thunderstorms will remain over mainly rural areas of north central Pottawatomie and southwestern Nemaha Counties. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && A tornado watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CST for northeastern Kansas. LAT...LON 3974 9614 3939 9624 3935 9638 3957 9624 TIME...MOT...LOC 2344Z 241DEG 48KT 3964 9603 3940 9619 HAIL...0.88IN WIND...60MPH $$ BB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 1:40 AM CST | Wind Advisory | TOP | Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more | 20 hr |
| Mar 6, 2:42 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | TOP | Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more | 29 hr |
| Mar 6, 4:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 39 min |
| Mar 6, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 52 min |
| Mar 6, 5:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 51 min |
| Mar 6, 5:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 29 min |
| Mar 6, 5:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 38 min |
| Mar 6, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 55 min |
| Mar 6, 5:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 37 min |
| Mar 6, 5:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 37 min |
| Mar 6, 5:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 32 min |
| Mar 6, 5:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 31 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.