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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2022, 9:23 PM CDT for Cloud County, Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2022, 9:23 PM CDT (02:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2022, 9:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cloud County, KS, Ottawa County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1400 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 362 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 7:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Topeka KS
702 PM CDT Thu Jun 23 2022
KSZ034-240045-
Ottawa-
702 PM CDT Thu Jun 23 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Ottawa
County through 745 PM CDT...
At 701 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles south of Lincoln, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Tescott.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 900 PM CDT for
north central Kansas.
&&
LAT...LON 3902 9793 3903 9783 3896 9783 3896 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 0001Z 271DEG 17KT 3893 9811
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
CPSpecial weather statement, Jun 23, 7:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Topeka KS
746 PM CDT Thu Jun 23 2022
KSZ034-240130-
Ottawa-
746 PM CDT Thu Jun 23 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Ottawa
County through 830 PM CDT...
At 746 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles south of Tescott, moving east at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Tescott and Culver.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 900 PM CDT for
north central Kansas.
&&
LAT...LON 3902 9768 3896 9765 3896 9793 3901 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 0046Z 259DEG 15KT 3893 9789
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
CPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Ottawa | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 7:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Ottawa | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 9:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Ottawa | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 10:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Clay | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 11:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Clay | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 11:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Geary | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 12:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 12:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Riley | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 2:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Republic, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 3:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Jefferson | 24 min |
| Jun 24, 7:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Jefferson | 3 hr |
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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.