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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Topeka, KS

July 6, 2022Cloud County, Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2022, 8:58 PM CDT for Cloud County, Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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
Jul 6, 2022, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2022, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 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 02:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2022-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1835 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2022-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 172 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1835 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
366 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
16.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 8:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPOttawa63 min
Jul 6, 9:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPClay57 min
Jul 6, 10:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRepublic40 min
Jul 6, 10:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRiley37 min
Jul 6, 10:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPWashington19 min
Jul 6, 10:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPWashington49 min
Jul 6, 11:12 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTOPRepublic, Washington3 hr
Jul 6, 11:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPMarshall, Nemaha56 min
Jul 7, 12:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPNemaha51 min
Jul 7, 1:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPBrown45 min
Jul 7, 3:47 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTOPBrown, Jackson, Nemaha5 hr
Jul 7, 3:53 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningTOPWashington51 hr
Jul 7, 5:02 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningTOPRepublic, Washington3 hr
Jul 7, 9:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningTOPMarshall32 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.