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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 2023, 3:33 PM CDT for Cloud County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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
- Sep 21, 2023, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2023, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Cloud County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 458 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 Sep 21, 2:52 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 2:52 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Topeka KS 255 PM CDT Thu Sep 21 2023 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-222000- Republic-Washington-Marshall-Nemaha-Brown-Cloud-Clay-Riley- Pottawatomie-Jackson-Jefferson-Ottawa-Dickinson-Geary-Morris- Wabaunsee-Shawnee-Douglas-Lyon-Osage-Franklin-Coffey-Anderson- 255 PM CDT Thu Sep 21 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Kansas, east central Kansas, north central Kansas and northeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Scattered thunderstorms are likely this evening into Friday morning, initially across north central Kansas this evening before spreading east after midnight. Widespread severe weather is not expected, but some storms could produce small hail and gusty winds. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Thunderstorms are again likely Saturday, particularly across northeast and east-central Kansas. Some of these storms could be severe, so stay tuned for future details. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. && More detailed information can be found at: www.weather.gov/media/top/DssPacket.pdf
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 21, 3:29 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 31 min |
| Sep 21, 3:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 25 min |
| Sep 21, 4:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 48 min |
| Sep 21, 4:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Clay | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 4:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 41 min |
| Sep 21, 4:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 39 min |
| Sep 21, 5:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris | 28 min |
| Sep 21, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris | 42 min |
| Sep 21, 5:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Lyon | 32 min |
| Sep 21, 6:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Osage | 47 min |
| Sep 21, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 10 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.