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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS

March 15, 2021Osage County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2021, 3:32 PM CDT for Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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 15, 2021, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired
Mar 15, 2021, 4:02 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Osage County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 35 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 12:00Z on 2021-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2021-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 126 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

014 
WUUS53 KTOP 152032
SVRTOP
KSC139-152115-
/O.NEW.KTOP.SV.W.0004.210315T2032Z-210315T2115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Topeka KS
332 PM CDT Mon Mar 15 2021

The National Weather Service in Topeka has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northeastern Osage County in east central Kansas...

* Until 415 PM CDT.

* At 331 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Lyndon,
  moving northeast at 20 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Overbrook, Lyndon and Pomona Lake. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3869 9551 3868 9551 3858 9571 3863 9579
      3882 9563 3874 9550 3870 9550
TIME...MOT...LOC 2031Z 225DEG 17KT 3863 9572 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

Baerg
1 follow-up statement
183 
WWUS53 KTOP 152102
SVSTOP

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Topeka KS
402 PM CDT Mon Mar 15 2021

KSC139-152111-
/O.CAN.KTOP.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-210315T2115Z/
Osage-
402 PM CDT Mon Mar 15 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
    
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has weakened. 
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.  However gusty winds are 
still possible with this thunderstorm.

LAT...LON 3869 9551 3868 9551 3858 9571 3863 9579
      3882 9563 3874 9550 3870 9550
TIME...MOT...LOC 2100Z 225DEG 17KT 3873 9559 

$$

Baerg

The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 15, 4:46 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningTOPMarshall4 days
Mar 15, 3:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPOsage48 min
Mar 15, 3:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPFranklin40 min
Mar 15, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOsage20 min
Mar 15, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPFranklin32 min
Mar 15, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPFranklin16 min
Mar 15, 4:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPShawnee34 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.