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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this freeze warning at Apr 18, 2022, 3:34 AM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 19, 2022, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 2022, 3:34 AM CDT (08:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 19, 2022, 3:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2022, 8:06 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 331 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
- 587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Apr 17, 6:32 PM CDT, 9 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 6:32 PM CDT, 9 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 17, 1:37 PM CDT, 13 hours 57 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Topeka KS 137 PM CDT Sun Apr 17 2022 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-181845- Republic-Washington-Marshall-Nemaha-Brown-Cloud-Clay-Riley- Pottawatomie-Jackson-Jefferson-Ottawa-Dickinson-Geary-Morris- Wabaunsee-Shawnee-Douglas-Lyon-Osage-Franklin-Coffey-Anderson- 137 PM CDT Sun Apr 17 2022 This hazardous weather outlook is for east central...north central and northeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight A Frost Advisory and Freeze Warning have been issued for tonight. See weather.gov/TOP for more details. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Temperatures are forecast to once again drop below freezing Tuesday morning across northern and eastern Kansas. A Freeze Watch has been issued. For more details visit weather.gov/TOP. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed through tonight. && More detailed information can be accessed at... http://www.weather.gov/media/top/DssPacket.pdf
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 3:36 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | TOP | Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Geary, Lyon, Morris and 1 more | 17 hr |
Nearby
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.