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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Topeka, KS
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 26 min |
| Jun 4, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Washington | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 3:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 5:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 26 min |
| Jun 4, 5:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 38 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.