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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2019, 11:15 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Aug 17, 2019, 11:15 PM CDT (04:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2019, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Dickinson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 2409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
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 Aug 17, 6:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 6:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 10:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Ottawa | 50 min |
| Aug 17, 11:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Dickinson, Geary | 34 min |
| Aug 18, 12:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Nemaha | 25 min |
| Aug 18, 12:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris | 29 min |
| Aug 18, 12:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown | 13 min |
| Aug 18, 12:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Nemaha | 36 min |
| Aug 18, 1:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Lyon | 30 min |
| Aug 18, 1:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Coffey | 42 min |
| Aug 18, 1:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Jefferson | 41 min |
| Aug 18, 1:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Jefferson | 31 min |
| Aug 18, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Aug 18, 2:38 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | TOP | Anderson, Clay, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin and 11 more | 29 hr |
| Aug 18, 2:38 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | TOP | Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more | 54 hr |
Nearby
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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.