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Red Flag Warning 15, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 23, 2022, 3:14 AM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 23, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 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 23, 2022, 3:14 AM CDT (08:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 23, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2022, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:13 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 660 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -298 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Apr 23, 12:50 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 12:50 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Dickinson | 14 min |
| Apr 23, 5:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown | 33 min |
| Apr 23, 6:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Wabaunsee | 36 min |
| Apr 23, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown | 18 min |
| Apr 23, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 29 min |
| Apr 23, 6:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Shawnee | 67 min |
| Apr 23, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson | 48 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.