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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2018, 7:31 PM CDT for Brown County, Kansas. It was in force for 20 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2018, 7:31 PM CDT (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2018, 7:51 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Brown County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 1535 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 28, 6:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 6:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Topeka KS 633 PM CDT Mon May 28 2018 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-292345- Republic-Washington-Marshall-Nemaha-Brown-Cloud-Clay-Riley- Pottawatomie-Jackson-Jefferson-Ottawa-Dickinson-Geary-Morris- Wabaunsee-Shawnee-Douglas-Lyon-Osage-Franklin-Coffey-Anderson- 633 PM CDT Mon May 28 2018 This hazardous weather outlook is for east central...north central and northeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Isolated thunderstorms are possible through sunset across the outlook area. Additional thunderstorms are also possible through this evening along Highway 81 in north central Kansas, and after midnight across portions of northeast and east central Kansas. Gusty winds and small are the main hazards. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible across most of the area Tuesday afternoon through late Tuesday night. Damaging wind gusts would be the main threat. .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
Special weather statement, May 28, 5:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 11:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Jefferson | 24 min |
| May 29, 12:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Dickinson | 36 min |
| May 29, 12:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Riley | 18 min |
| May 29, 1:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Riley | 18 min |
| May 29, 2:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown | 25 min |
| May 29, 3:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown | 25 min |
| May 29, 3:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Jefferson | 32 min |
| May 29, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 26 min |
| May 29, 4:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Jefferson | 29 min |
| May 29, 5:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Wabaunsee | 23 min |
| May 29, 5:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Wabaunsee | 26 min |
| May 29, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley | 24 min |
| May 29, 4:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Pottawatomie | 37 min |
| May 29, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 18 min |
| May 29, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Jackson | 28 min |
| May 29, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Ottawa | 48 min |
| May 29, 6:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Ottawa | 50 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.