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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 2023, 12:13 AM CST for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 47 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
- Feb 27, 2023, 12:13 AM CST (06:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2023, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Brown County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 356 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 Feb 26, 5:12 PM CST, 7 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 5:12 PM CST, 7 hours 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 8:12 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 18 min |
| Feb 26, 8:32 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 28 min |
| Feb 26, 8:41 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Geary, Morris | 34 min |
| Feb 26, 9:02 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris | 28 min |
| Feb 26, 9:24 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Dickinson | 36 min |
| Feb 26, 9:53 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Shawnee | 22 min |
| Feb 26, 11:01 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Lyon | 44 min |
| Feb 26, 11:43 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Osage, Shawnee | 32 min |
| Feb 27, 12:44 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Anderson | 16 min |
| Feb 27, 2:33 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown, Jefferson, Shawnee | 27 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.