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Fire Weather Watch 1, NWS Topeka, KS

March 9, 202111 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this fire weather watch at Mar 9, 2021, 3:38 AM CST for 11 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 10, 2021, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 9, 2021, 3:38 AM CST (09:38 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 10, 2021, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Mar 9, 2021, 3:44 PM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS

Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Washington County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 125 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 00:00Z on 2021-03-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2021-03-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
188 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
Mar 9, 3:29 AM CSTWind AdvisoryTOPAnderson, Cloud, Coffey, Lyon, Republic39 hr
Mar 9, 3:35 PM CSTWind AdvisoryTOPBrown, Clay, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin, Geary and 12 more26 hr
Mar 9, 3:44 PM CSTRed Flag WarningTOPBrown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 11 more27 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.