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Red Flag Warning 18, NWS Topeka, KS

October 12, 202223 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Oct 12, 2022, 2:33 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 13, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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: Oct 12, 2022, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 13, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Oct 13, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS

All 23 counties

Anderson County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa 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), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 61 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Oct 12, 12:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 12:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 11, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	30 min
Oct 11, 11:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	39 min
Oct 11, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Cloud, Republic, Washington	44 min
Oct 12, 12:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Marshall	35 min
Oct 12, 12:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Marshall, Ottawa, Washington	45 min
Oct 12, 1:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Nemaha and 2 more	56 min
Oct 12, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson	31 min
Oct 12, 2:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson, Morris, Pottawatomie and 3 more	51 min
Oct 12, 2:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson, Morris, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	48 min
Oct 12, 3:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Lyon, Osage	47 min
Oct 12, 4:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson, Coffey	54 min
Oct 12, 10:13 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Marshall, Nemaha, Ottawa, Republic and 2 more	9 hr

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.