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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2022, 5:47 PM CDT for Cloud County, Republic County, Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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
- May 12, 2022, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2022, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cloud County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 1555 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 5:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 34 min |
| May 12, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 47 min |
| May 12, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 45 min |
| May 12, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 37 min |
| May 12, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic, Washington | 20 min |
| May 12, 6:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 42 min |
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.