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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2021, 11:00 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- May 8, 2021, 11:00 PM CDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2021, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Dickinson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 362 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted.
436
WUUS53 KTOP 090400 RRA
SVRTOP
KSC041-090445-
/O.NEW.KTOP.SV.W.0026.210509T0400Z-210509T0445Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Topeka KS
1100 PM CDT Sat May 8 2021
The National Weather Service in Topeka has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Dickinson County in central Kansas...
* Until 1145 PM CDT.
* At 1100 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles southeast
of New Cambria, moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Trained weather spotters.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect
wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Abilene, Chapman, Solomon, Enterprise and Woodbine.
This includes Interstate 70 between mile markers 267 and 289.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 100 AM CDT for central and
east central Kansas.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3893 9737 3897 9737 3901 9696 3897 9696
3898 9695 3897 9695 3897 9693 3887 9694
3887 9689 3881 9689 3881 9693 3869 9693
3871 9737 3891 9737 3892 9738
TIME...MOT...LOC 0400Z 266DEG 28KT 3883 9742
HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...60MPH
$$2 follow-up statements
187
WWUS53 KTOP 090430
SVSTOP
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Topeka KS
1130 PM CDT Sat May 8 2021
KSC041-090445-
/O.CON.KTOP.SV.W.0026.000000T0000Z-210509T0445Z/
Dickinson-
1130 PM CDT Sat May 8 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
FOR CENTRAL DICKINSON COUNTY...
At 1130 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Enterprise,
moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Public.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Abilene, Chapman, Solomon, Enterprise and Woodbine.
This includes Interstate 70 between mile markers 267 and 289.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 100 AM CDT for central and
east central Kansas.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3893 9737 3897 9737 3901 9696 3897 9696
3898 9695 3897 9695 3897 9693 3887 9694
3887 9689 3881 9689 3881 9693 3869 9693
3871 9737 3891 9737 3892 9738
TIME...MOT...LOC 0430Z 263DEG 25KT 3887 9714
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$045
WWUS53 KTOP 090441
SVSTOP
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Topeka KS
1141 PM CDT Sat May 8 2021
KSC041-090450-
/O.EXP.KTOP.SV.W.0026.000000T0000Z-210509T0445Z/
Dickinson-
1141 PM CDT Sat May 8 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL DICKINSON COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 1145 PM CDT...
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 will be allowed to expire. However small
hail up to the size of dimes and winds gusts around 50 MPH are still
possible with this thunderstorm as it move east across central and
eastern Dickinson county through 1200 AM.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 100 AM CDT for central and
east central Kansas.
LAT...LON 3893 9737 3897 9737 3901 9696 3897 9696
3898 9695 3897 9695 3897 9693 3887 9694
3887 9689 3881 9689 3881 9693 3869 9693
3871 9737 3891 9737 3892 9738
TIME...MOT...LOC 0440Z 266DEG 28KT 3888 9704
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 15 min |
| May 8, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 33 min |
| May 8, 7:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Marshall | 23 min |
| May 8, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 49 min |
| May 8, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 42 min |
| May 8, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 52 min |
| May 8, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 57 min |
| May 8, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris, Riley | 51 min |
| May 8, 9:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Marshall | 33 min |
| May 8, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley | 24 min |
| May 8, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Jackson, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee and 1 more | 42 min |
| May 8, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 21 min |
| May 8, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 47 min |
| May 8, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 45 min |
| May 8, 11:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Douglas | 49 min |
| May 8, 11:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 3 hr |
| May 9, 12:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Dickinson, Geary | 3 hr |
| May 9, 12:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Dickinson | 45 min |
| May 9, 12:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 4 hr |
| May 9, 12:31 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Douglas | 3 hr |
| May 9, 12:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris | 47 min |
| May 9, 2:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Coffey | 32 min |
| May 9, 3:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 49 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.