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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Topeka, KS

October 16, 20246 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Oct 16, 2024, 3:03 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 16, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 16, 2024, 3:03 AM CDT (08:03 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 16, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Oct 16, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS

Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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 red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Oct 16, 2:51 AM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 16, 2:51 AM CDT, 12 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 16, 2:03 PM CDTRed Flag WarningTOPAnderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more30 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2024Every red flag warning in 2024

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.