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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Topeka, KS

July 16, 2024Jefferson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2024, 7:58 AM CDT for Jefferson County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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: Jul 16, 2024, 7:58 AM CDT (12:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2024, 8:30 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Jefferson County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:02 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
Jul 16, 4:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 34 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1069 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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 Jul 16, 5:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 5:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 3:14 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Topeka KS
314 AM CDT Tue Jul 16 2024

KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-170815-
Republic-Washington-Marshall-Nemaha-Brown-Cloud-Clay-Riley-
Pottawatomie-Jackson-Jefferson-Ottawa-Dickinson-Geary-Morris-
Wabaunsee-Shawnee-Douglas-Lyon-Osage-Franklin-Coffey-Anderson-
314 AM CDT Tue Jul 16 2024

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

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Scattered storms are likely this morning with additional development
possible through the afternoon. A few storms may be strong to severe
with wind gusts up to 60 mph being the main hazard.

Additional severe storms may move into north central Kansas this
evening. These storms would be capable of large hail and damaging
wind gusts.

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

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 16, 7:39 AM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 16, 7:46 AM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 16, 7:47 AM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 16, 7:48 AM CDT, 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 3:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Cloud	46 min
Jul 16, 4:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TOP	Cloud, Ottawa	22 min
Jul 16, 4:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa	33 min
Jul 16, 5:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Ottawa and 1 more	33 min
Jul 16, 5:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Morris, Pottawatomie and 3 more	24 min
Jul 16, 6:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	47 min
Jul 16, 6:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jackson	35 min
Jul 16, 6:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	33 min
Jul 16, 6:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson	27 min
Jul 16, 7:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	36 min
Jul 16, 7:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Osage	32 min
Jul 16, 7:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	27 min
Jul 16, 7:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	32 min
Jul 16, 8:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Douglas	28 min
Jul 16, 8:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Lyon, Osage	36 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.