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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Topeka, KS

June 23, 20195 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2019, 3:33 AM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 57 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: Jun 23, 2019, 3:33 AM CDT (08:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2019, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Geary County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Riley County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 76 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: 2860 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1009 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 9.6

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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 Jun 22, 11:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 11:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 10:03 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 10:13 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 11:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 12:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 2:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 3:00 AM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 3:28 AM CDT, 5 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
Jun 22, 7:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha	4 hr
Jun 22, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	41 min
Jun 22, 7:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Morris, Wabaunsee	23 min
Jun 22, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Jefferson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	51 min
Jun 22, 7:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Shawnee	25 min
Jun 22, 7:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Dickinson, Morris	3 hr
Jun 22, 8:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson, Lyon, Shawnee	28 min
Jun 22, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	19 min
Jun 22, 8:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Lyon, Osage	28 min
Jun 22, 9:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Coffey, Franklin	54 min
Jun 22, 9:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	3 hr
Jun 22, 9:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Osage, Shawnee	3 hr
Jun 22, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage	33 min
Jun 22, 9:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Coffey, Franklin, Osage	4 hr
Jun 22, 9:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	23 min
Jun 22, 9:55 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	24 hr
Jun 22, 11:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	6 hr
Jun 22, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Marshall, Washington	59 min
Jun 23, 12:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon	46 min
Jun 23, 1:10 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Nemaha	17 hr
Jun 23, 1:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Ottawa, Pottawatomie, Riley	3 hr
Jun 23, 2:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson	53 min
Jun 23, 3:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Geary, Morris	45 min
Jun 23, 3:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon	62 min
Jun 23, 4:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Shawnee	62 min
Jun 23, 4:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Geary, Jackson, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 23, 4:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon	53 min
Jun 23, 4:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Jefferson	12 hr
Jun 23, 4:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas, Osage	61 min
Jun 23, 5:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Coffey	64 min
Jun 23, 5:28 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	42 hr
Jun 23, 5:28 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	12 hr
Jun 23, 5:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Dickinson	5 days
Jun 23, 6:08 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Jackson, Shawnee	22 hr
Jun 23, 6:31 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	14 hr
Jun 23, 6:31 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Anderson	42 hr
Jun 23, 6:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Coffey	40 min
Jun 23, 6:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon	5 days
Jun 23, 6:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Shawnee	22 hr
Jun 23, 6:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Osage	23 hr
Jun 23, 7:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	39 min
Jun 23, 7:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin	55 hr
Jun 23, 7:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin, Osage	46 hr
Jun 23, 7:44 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Shawnee	14 hr
Jun 23, 9:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon	46 hr
Jun 23, 9:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon	4 days
Jun 23, 9:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	36 hr
Jun 23, 9:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	44 hr
Jun 23, 9:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	5 hr
Jun 23, 9:44 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Cloud	30 hr
Jun 23, 10:02 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin	70 hr
Jun 23, 10:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Clay	10 hr
Jun 23, 11:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon, Osage	11 hr
Jun 23, 11:57 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Geary	22 hr
Jun 23, 12:08 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	18 hr
Jun 23, 12:08 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	31 hr

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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.