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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Topeka, KS

June 7, 2022Cloud County, Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2022, 12:24 AM CDT for Cloud County, Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 21 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
Jun 7, 2022, 12:24 AM CDT (05:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2022, 12:45 AM CDT
In force
21 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Cloud County, KS, Ottawa County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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 2022-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1050 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 2022-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
1050 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1577 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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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 Jun 7, 12:14 AM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 12:14 AM CDT, 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 8:59 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningTOPOttawa, Saline6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2022Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2022

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.