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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Topeka, KS

August 19, 2022Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2022, 3:49 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 2022, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 2022, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Ottawa County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 248 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2022-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2022-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-257 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1953 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 8:19 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPWashington26 min
Aug 19, 10:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPGeary25 min
Aug 19, 3:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPOttawa30 min
Aug 19, 4:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPOttawa31 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.