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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Topeka, KS

May 15, 2022Lyon County, Morris County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2022, 10:25 AM CDT for Lyon County, Morris County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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, 10:25 AM CDT (15:25 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2022, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:28 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 15, 6:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 69 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 97 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -329 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1238 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.6

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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, 16 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 5:48 PM CDT, 16 hours 37 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	31 min
May 14, 8:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	14 min
May 15, 3:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Nemaha	29 min
May 15, 3:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Nemaha	31 min
May 15, 4:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown	27 min
May 15, 4:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	35 min
May 15, 5:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown	24 min
May 15, 5:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson	34 min
May 15, 5:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Clay	27 min
May 15, 5:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Nemaha	37 min
May 15, 6:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	25 min
May 15, 6:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown	24 min
May 15, 6:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	41 min
May 15, 6:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ottawa	38 min
May 15, 6:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	48 min
May 15, 7:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	45 min
May 15, 7:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson	24 min
May 15, 7:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	38 min
May 15, 7:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage	47 min
May 15, 7:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Osage, Shawnee	44 min
May 15, 8:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	30 min
May 15, 8:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Franklin	35 min
May 15, 9:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson, Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley	26 min
May 15, 9:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Geary, Morris, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	34 min
May 15, 9:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee	31 min
May 15, 10:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Coffey, Lyon	23 min
May 15, 11:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Coffey	30 min
May 15, 12:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon	24 min
May 15, 12:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Coffey	28 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.