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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2023, 12:54 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 51 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
- Jul 14, 2023, 12:54 PM CDT (17:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2023, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 11:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 91 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -316 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 Jul 14, 6:08 AM CDT, 6 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 6:08 AM CDT, 6 hours 46 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 3:23 AM CDT, 9 hours 31 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Topeka KS 323 AM CDT Fri Jul 14 2023 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-150830- Republic-Washington-Marshall-Nemaha-Brown-Cloud-Clay-Riley- Pottawatomie-Jackson-Jefferson-Ottawa-Dickinson-Geary-Morris- Wabaunsee-Shawnee-Douglas-Lyon-Osage-Franklin-Coffey-Anderson- 323 AM CDT Fri Jul 14 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Kansas, east central Kansas, north central Kansas and northeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. A line of thunderstorms is expected to move into the area from the northwest by this afternoon and early evening. Storms are expected to be capable of producing winds of 70 mph or greater at times. A few storms could also produce large hail. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Potentially hazardous heat and humidity may return to the area by Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters may be needed this afternoon and evening. && More detailed information can be found at: www.weather.gov/media/top/DssPacket.pdf
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 11:46 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Topeka KS
1146 AM CDT Fri Jul 14 2023
KSZ009-141730-
Washington-
1146 AM CDT Fri Jul 14 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southern Washington
County through 1230 PM CDT...
At 1146 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 6
miles northwest of Palmer, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Washington, Linn, Greenleaf, Barnes and Palmer.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3988 9681 3957 9681 3957 9690 3959 9731
3981 9730
TIME...MOT...LOC 1646Z 270DEG 21KT 3971 9719
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
OmittThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 11:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley, Washington | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 50 min |
| Jul 14, 1:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 30 min |
| Jul 14, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Nemaha, Shawnee | 62 min |
| Jul 14, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 57 min |
| Jul 14, 2:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Wabaunsee | 23 min |
| Jul 14, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 2:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 2:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Riley | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 2:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Geary | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 2:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 45 min |
| Jul 14, 2:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Osage | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 48 min |
| Jul 14, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 3:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Wabaunsee | 38 min |
| Jul 14, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 3:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Douglas | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Lyon | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 4:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon | 56 min |
| Jul 14, 4:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Coffey | 36 min |
| Jul 14, 4:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 5:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Anderson | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 5:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Wabaunsee | 62 min |
| Jul 14, 5:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 67 min |
| Jul 14, 5:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 95 min |
| Jul 14, 5:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Lyon | 30 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.