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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS

May 24, 2018Franklin County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at May 24, 2018, 4:13 PM CDT for Franklin County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2018, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2018, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS

County Franklin County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 64 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2018-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 170 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2018-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
170 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1038 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 7:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPAnderson31 min
May 23, 8:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPFranklin32 min
May 23, 8:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPFranklin34 min
May 24, 2:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPDouglas, Franklin36 min
May 24, 3:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPDouglas, Franklin, Jefferson33 min
May 24, 4:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPAnderson, Coffey, Osage24 min
May 24, 4:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPAnderson29 min
May 24, 5:03 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTOPFranklin3 hr
May 24, 6:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPAnderson34 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.