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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 15, 2021, 5:57 PM CST for Douglas County, Franklin 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
- Dec 15, 2021, 5:57 PM CST (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 15, 2021, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 477 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
089
WUUS53 KTOP 152357
SVRTOP
KSC045-059-160015-
/O.NEW.KTOP.SV.W.0190.211215T2357Z-211216T0015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Topeka KS
557 PM CST Wed Dec 15 2021
The National Weather Service in Topeka has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northern Franklin County in east central Kansas...
Southeastern Douglas County in east central Kansas...
* Until 615 PM CST.
* At 556 PM CST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 4 miles northwest of Eudora to near Vinland to 4
miles southeast of Pomona, moving northeast at 55 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Eastern Lawrence, Ottawa, Baldwin City, Eudora, Wellsville and
Vinland.
This includes Interstate 35 between mile markers 187 and 198.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3869 9507 3862 9507 3858 9544 3881 9524
3896 9518 3898 9516 3897 9513 3897 9511
3895 9509 3896 9508 3898 9508 3899 9506
3870 9506
TIME...MOT...LOC 2356Z 222DEG 50KT 3898 9516 3886 9517 3857 9537
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
Gargan2 follow-up statements
217
WWUS53 KTOP 160009
SVSTOP
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Topeka KS
609 PM CST Wed Dec 15 2021
KSC045-059-160015-
/O.CON.KTOP.SV.W.0190.000000T0000Z-211216T0015Z/
Franklin-Douglas-
609 PM CST Wed Dec 15 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CST
FOR NORTHEASTERN FRANKLIN AND SOUTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTIES...
At 608 PM CST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 3 miles east of Tonganoxie to near Linwood to 5 miles
north of Ottawa, moving northeast at 60 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Ottawa, Baldwin City, Eudora and Wellsville.
This includes Interstate 35 between mile markers 187 and 198.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3869 9507 3862 9507 3860 9531 3883 9514
3895 9509 3896 9508 3898 9508 3899 9506
3870 9506
TIME...MOT...LOC 0008Z 222DEG 50KT 3910 9502 3898 9503 3869 9523
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
Gargan303
WWUS53 KTOP 160010
SVSTOP
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Topeka KS
610 PM CST Wed Dec 15 2021
KSC045-059-160019-
/O.EXP.KTOP.SV.W.0190.000000T0000Z-211216T0015Z/
Franklin-Douglas-
610 PM CST Wed Dec 15 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN FRANKLIN AND
SOUTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 615 PM CST...
The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. However gusty
winds are still possible behind the line of thunderstorms.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 700 PM CST for
east central Kansas.
LAT...LON 3869 9507 3862 9507 3860 9531 3883 9514
3895 9509 3896 9508 3898 9508 3899 9506
3870 9506
TIME...MOT...LOC 0009Z 222DEG 50KT 3911 9501 3899 9502 3870 9522
$$
GarganThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 1:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa, Republic | 48 min |
| Dec 15, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Marshall, Ottawa, Republic and 2 more | 48 min |
| Dec 15, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 45 min |
| Dec 15, 3:01 PM CST | Blowing Dust Advisory | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 3 hr |
| Dec 15, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 4 more | 41 min |
| Dec 15, 3:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Riley | 13 min |
| Dec 15, 3:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 15 min |
| Dec 15, 3:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee | 51 min |
| Dec 15, 3:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Geary, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie and 3 more | 51 min |
| Dec 15, 3:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 10 min |
| Dec 15, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 20 min |
| Dec 15, 4:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 40 min |
| Dec 15, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 27 min |
| Dec 15, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 40 min |
| Dec 15, 4:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Lyon, Osage, Shawnee and 1 more | 37 min |
| Dec 15, 4:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 51 min |
| Dec 15, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin, Osage | 36 min |
| Dec 15, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage | 45 min |
| Dec 15, 5:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee | 36 min |
| Dec 15, 5:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin, Osage | 33 min |
| Dec 15, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 36 min |
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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.