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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 328, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 1, 2019, 2:38 PM CDT for Cloud County, Republic County, Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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
- Oct 1, 2019, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 2019, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cloud County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 612 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 950 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 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 Oct 1, 1:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 1, 1:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 3 hr |
| Oct 1, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 20 min |
| Oct 1, 3:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 26 min |
| Oct 1, 3:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Marshall | 25 min |
| Oct 1, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 13 min |
| Oct 1, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa | 47 min |
| Oct 1, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary | 29 min |
| Oct 1, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley | 36 min |
| Oct 1, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 22 min |
| Oct 1, 6:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Pottawatomie | 31 min |
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.