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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Topeka, KS

July 5, 2019Republic County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2019, 6:22 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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
Jul 5, 2019, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2019, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.88 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Republic County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 2019-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2195 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 2019-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 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
2195 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jul 5, 3:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 3:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:32 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:53 PM CDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 9:24 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningTOPLyon5 days
Jul 4, 9:24 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningTOPGeary65 hr
Jul 4, 9:24 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningTOPGeary, Riley55 hr
Jul 4, 9:24 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningTOPPottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee4 days
Jul 5, 4:03 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRepublic27 min
Jul 5, 4:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRepublic34 min
Jul 5, 7:38 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRepublic52 min
Jul 5, 7:49 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPWashington26 min
Jul 5, 8:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRiley24 min
Jul 5, 8:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPMarshall, Pottawatomie, Riley58 min
Jul 5, 9:22 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningTOPLyon4 days
Jul 5, 9:51 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPWabaunsee24 min
Jul 5, 10:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPMorris37 min
Jul 5, 11:30 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPAnderson30 min
Jul 5, 11:51 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPWashington24 min
Jul 5, 11:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPCloud31 min
Jul 5, 12:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPWashington24 min
Jul 5, 12:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPCloud28 min
Jul 5, 12:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPClay37 min
Jul 5, 1:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRiley30 min
Jul 5, 1:26 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningTOPDickinson19 hr
Jul 5, 2:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchTOPAnderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more16 hr
Jul 5, 2:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRepublic32 min
Jul 5, 3:17 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTOPRepublic3 hr
Jul 5, 6:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRepublic32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.