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Fire Weather Watch 7, NWS Topeka, KS

December 14, 202121 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this fire weather watch at Dec 14, 2021, 2:27 AM CST for 21 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Dec 15, 2021, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 14, 2021, 2:27 AM CST (08:27 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 15, 2021, 12:00 PM CST
Expired: Dec 14, 2021, 1:37 PM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS

All 21 counties

Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 402 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Dec 13, 10:46 PM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 10:46 PM CST, 3 hours 41 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
Dec 14, 2:22 AM CST	High Wind Warning	TOP	Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more	43 hr
Dec 14, 1:37 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	TOP	Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas and 15 more	31 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.