Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2021, 12:31 AM CDT for Douglas County, Osage County, Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2021, 12:31 AM CDT (05:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2021, 12:49 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Douglas County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:32 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 964 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 405 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
425
WUUS53 KTOP 170531
SVRTOP
KSC045-139-177-170615-
/O.NEW.KTOP.SV.W.0011.210317T0531Z-210317T0615Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Topeka KS
1231 AM CDT Wed Mar 17 2021
The National Weather Service in Topeka has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Shawnee County in east central Kansas...
Southwestern Douglas County in east central Kansas...
Northern Osage County in east central Kansas...
* Until 115 AM CDT.
* At 1231 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles south of
Scranton, moving northeast at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.
* Locations impacted include...
Southeastern Topeka, Carbondale, Tecumseh, Richland, Overbrook,
Burlingame, Scranton, Clinton, Lone Star, Pleasant Grove, Pauline,
Clinton Lake, Globe and Berryton.
This includes Kansas Turnpike between mile markers 182 and 190.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3882 9521 3874 9542 3874 9550 3871 9550
3864 9568 3879 9588 3906 9559 3905 9558
3907 9555
TIME...MOT...LOC 0531Z 233DEG 30KT 3871 9572
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
Gargan2 follow-up statements
875
WWUS53 KTOP 170543
SVSTOP
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Topeka KS
1243 AM CDT Wed Mar 17 2021
KSC045-139-177-170615-
/O.CON.KTOP.SV.W.0011.000000T0000Z-210317T0615Z/
Shawnee-Douglas-Osage-
1243 AM CDT Wed Mar 17 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 AM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN SHAWNEE...SOUTHWESTERN DOUGLAS AND NORTHERN OSAGE
COUNTIES...
At 1243 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Scranton,
moving northeast at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.
Locations impacted include...
Southeastern Topeka, Carbondale, Tecumseh, Richland, Overbrook,
Scranton, Clinton, Lone Star, Clinton Lake, Pauline and Berryton.
This includes Kansas Turnpike between mile markers 182 and 190.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3887 9528 3878 9543 3875 9550 3873 9553
3872 9568 3879 9588 3906 9559 3905 9558
3907 9555
TIME...MOT...LOC 0543Z 224DEG 30KT 3881 9579
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
Gargan578
WWUS53 KTOP 170549
SVSTOP
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Topeka KS
1249 AM CDT Wed Mar 17 2021
KSC045-139-177-170559-
/O.CAN.KTOP.SV.W.0011.000000T0000Z-210317T0615Z/
Shawnee-Douglas-Osage-
1249 AM CDT Wed Mar 17 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN SHAWNEE...
SOUTHWESTERN DOUGLAS AND NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled. However small hail and
heavy rain are still possible with this thunderstorm.
LAT...LON 3887 9528 3878 9543 3875 9550 3873 9553
3872 9568 3879 9588 3906 9559 3905 9558
3907 9555
TIME...MOT...LOC 0547Z 233DEG 30KT 3884 9573
$$
GarganThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 11:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Lyon | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Wabaunsee | 25 min |
| Mar 16, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee | 33 min |
| Mar 17, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 42 min |
| Mar 17, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 28 min |
| Mar 17, 12:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Douglas | 37 min |
| Mar 17, 2:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Wabaunsee | 36 min |
| Mar 17, 2:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Shawnee | 32 min |
| Mar 17, 3:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Jefferson | 14 min |
| Mar 17, 3:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Coffey | 30 min |
| Mar 17, 7:14 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 2 hr |
| Mar 17, 7:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 35 min |
| Mar 17, 9:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 44 hr |
| Mar 17, 9:16 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson | 35 hr |
| Mar 17, 9:27 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Franklin | 24 hr |
| Mar 17, 3:11 PM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Lyon and 4 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 17, 4:32 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Franklin, Osage | 39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.