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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Topeka, KS

May 31, 2023Jefferson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2023, 4:16 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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 31, 2023, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2023, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Jefferson County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 246 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: 55 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -251 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1320 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 31, 2:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 2:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 31, 2:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 31, 2:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 2:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 31, 2:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 3:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 4:09 PM CDT, 7 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, 7:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	52 min
May 30, 7:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin	3 hr
May 30, 8:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	30 min
May 30, 11:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Franklin	3 hr
May 30, 11:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	32 min
May 31, 12:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Anderson	110 min
May 31, 12:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	28 min
May 31, 1:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas	24 min
May 31, 1:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Franklin	27 min
May 31, 2:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Douglas, Franklin	81 min
May 31, 2:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Shawnee	36 min
May 31, 2:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Shawnee	34 min
May 31, 2:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Washington	32 min
May 31, 3:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Jefferson	82 min
May 31, 3:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Shawnee	38 min
May 31, 3:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin	3 hr
May 31, 4:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	25 min
May 31, 4:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Jefferson	2 hr
May 31, 4:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Pottawatomie	34 min
May 31, 4:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Marshall	33 min
May 31, 4:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin	2 hr
May 31, 4:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Jackson, Shawnee	3 hr
May 31, 5:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Osage, Shawnee	3 hr
May 31, 5:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Franklin	43 min
May 31, 6:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin	3 hr
May 31, 7:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Anderson	3 hr
May 31, 8:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Shawnee	7 hr
May 31, 9:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Douglas, Franklin	2 hr
May 31, 2:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson	35 min
May 31, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Clay	26 min
May 31, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Riley	27 min
May 31, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Geary	36 min
May 31, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson	32 min
May 31, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson	31 min
May 31, 5:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Jefferson	3 hr

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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.