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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Topeka, KS

September 17, 2022Republic County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 2022, 4:05 AM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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
Sep 17, 2022, 4:05 AM CDT (09:05 UTC)
Expired
Sep 17, 2022, 4:45 AM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Republic County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 288 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2022-09-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1109 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2022-09-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 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
1109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1907 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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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.

NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 17, 12:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 12:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 17, 3:26 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 17, 3:26 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRepublic49 min
Sep 17, 4:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPOttawa36 min
Sep 17, 4:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRepublic17 min
Sep 17, 4:28 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPOttawa47 min
Sep 17, 4:31 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRepublic29 min
Sep 17, 4:38 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPCloud52 min
Sep 17, 5:47 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTOPRepublic3 hr
Sep 17, 8:12 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTOPMarshall3 hr
Sep 17, 8:12 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPPottawatomie33 min
Sep 17, 12:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPMorris26 min
Sep 17, 1:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris30 min
Sep 17, 1:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPWabaunsee36 min
Sep 17, 1:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPMorris37 min
Sep 17, 2:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPMorris28 min
Sep 17, 2:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Morris28 min
Sep 17, 2:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Morris34 min
Sep 17, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTOPLyon35 min
Sep 17, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon17 min
Sep 17, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTOPLyon34 min
Sep 17, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon17 min
Sep 17, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTOPCoffey, Lyon, Osage27 min
Sep 17, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTOPCoffey, Lyon, Osage40 min
Sep 17, 6:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPMarshall34 min
Sep 17, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Washington28 min
Sep 17, 6:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPCloud33 min
Sep 17, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa51 min
Sep 17, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall34 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.