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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 24, 2021, 5:21 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- Jul 24, 2021, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2021, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
County Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1279 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
413 WWUS83 KTOP 242221 SPSTOP Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Topeka KS 521 PM CDT Sat Jul 24 2021 KSZ008-242300- Republic- 521 PM CDT Sat Jul 24 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM CDT... At 520 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Belleville, moving northeast at 5 mph. Pea size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Belleville, Cuba, Munden and Narka. LAT...LON 3975 9768 3989 9767 4000 9737 3978 9737 TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 241DEG 6KT 3984 9758 $$ Reese
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 28 min |
| Jul 24, 4:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 38 min |
| Jul 24, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Marshall | 34 min |
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.