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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Topeka, KS

May 15, 20225 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2022, 6:19 AM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 41 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 15, 2022, 6:19 AM CDT (11:19 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 2022, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Jackson County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 51 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 2022-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 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 2022-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 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
39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2883 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 May 14, 5:48 PM CDT, 12 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 5:48 PM CDT, 12 hours 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 7:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRepublic31 min
May 14, 8:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRepublic14 min
May 15, 3:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPNemaha29 min
May 15, 3:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPNemaha31 min
May 15, 4:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPBrown27 min
May 15, 4:55 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRepublic35 min
May 15, 5:06 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPBrown24 min
May 15, 5:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown, Jackson34 min
May 15, 5:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPClay27 min
May 15, 5:38 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPNemaha37 min
May 15, 6:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPPottawatomie, Riley25 min
May 15, 6:06 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPBrown24 min
May 15, 6:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa38 min
May 15, 6:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee48 min
May 15, 7:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPDouglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee45 min
May 15, 7:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPDickinson24 min
May 15, 7:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson, Shawnee38 min
May 15, 7:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTOPAnderson, Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage47 min
May 15, 7:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin, Osage, Shawnee44 min
May 15, 8:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPRepublic30 min
May 15, 8:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPFranklin35 min
May 15, 9:34 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPDickinson, Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley26 min
May 15, 9:56 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPGeary, Morris, Shawnee, Wabaunsee34 min
May 15, 9:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary, Morris, Wabaunsee31 min
May 15, 10:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Morris, Wabaunsee35 min
May 15, 10:52 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPCoffey, Lyon23 min
May 15, 11:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPCoffey30 min
May 15, 12:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPLyon24 min
May 15, 12:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPCoffey28 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.