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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Topeka, KS

May 30, 2023Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2023, 4:33 PM CDT for Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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 30, 2023, 4:33 PM CDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2023, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 29, 6:42 PM CDT, 21 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 6:42 PM CDT, 21 hours 51 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 30, 2:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie	33 min
May 30, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie	28 min
May 30, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jackson	43 min
May 30, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Morris	34 min
May 30, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	24 min
May 30, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris	27 min
May 30, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee	39 min
May 30, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris	34 min
May 30, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Shawnee, Wabaunsee	19 min
May 30, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee	40 min
May 30, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Morris	25 min
May 30, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Osage	49 min
May 30, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson	22 min
May 30, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Shawnee	30 min
May 30, 5:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Shawnee	3 hr
May 30, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown	38 min
May 30, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Franklin	47 min
May 30, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson	41 min
May 30, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Morris	32 min
May 30, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas	47 min
May 30, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon	29 min
May 30, 5:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson	3 hr
May 30, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Osage	42 min
May 30, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Brown	52 min
May 30, 6:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Brown	3 hr
May 30, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Franklin	45 min
May 30, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Franklin	41 min
May 30, 6:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Franklin	28 min
May 30, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	29 min
May 30, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Franklin	35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.