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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Topeka, KS

June 4, 2024Cloud County, Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2024, 2:23 PM CDT for Cloud County, Ottawa 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
Jun 4, 2024, 2:23 PM CDT (19:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2024, 2:50 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Cloud County, KS, Ottawa County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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 nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 249 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2024-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 272 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2024-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
272 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-144 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
914 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 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 Jun 4, 12:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 12:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 2:04 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Topeka KS
204 PM CDT Tue Jun 4 2024

KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-051915-
Republic-Washington-Marshall-Nemaha-Brown-Cloud-Clay-Riley-
Pottawatomie-Jackson-Jefferson-Ottawa-Dickinson-Geary-Morris-
Wabaunsee-Shawnee-Douglas-Lyon-Osage-Franklin-Coffey-Anderson-
204 PM CDT Tue Jun 4 2024

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Kansas, east central
Kansas, north central Kansas and northeast Kansas.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

Scattered storms are expected to move in from north central Kansas
this afternoon, tracking southeast across the area until exiting
around midnight. Some storms may be severe with large hail and
damaging wind gusts as the main hazards.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday.

The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low.

.SPOTTER MESSAGE

Weather spotters are encouraged to relay reports of hail, damaging
wind, tornadoes and flooding.

&&

More detailed information can be found at:
www.weather.gov/media/top/DssPacket.pdf

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 2:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPCloud26 min
Jun 4, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Cloud, Washington33 min
Jun 4, 3:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPWashington35 min
Jun 4, 5:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPCloud26 min
Jun 4, 5:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPBrown24 min
Jun 4, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTOPLyon38 min

Nearby

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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.